Leon Duveen for Bassetlaw

• Delivering an £800 tax cut to 25.4 million people by raising the income tax threshold to £10,500 in 2015, with 3.2 million low paid people being taken out of having to pay income tax at all

 

• Restored the link between pensions and earnings, which had been scrapped by Margaret Thatcher

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• Introduced the Pupil Premium giving extra money to school for children from the most deprived families, over £3.7 million pounds to schools across Bassetlaw

 

• Introduced the Green Deal, letting people pay for energy efficient home improvements with the savings on their energy bills

 

• Removed innocent people's DNA from the police database

 

• Vetoed the Snooper's Charter plans to monitor everyone's online activity

 

• Investing nearly £1 billion to crack down on tax avoidance, raising an extra £9 billion per year by 2015

 

• Increase Capital Gains Tax to 28% for higher rate taxpayers

 

• Scrapped the expensive and impractical ID cards programme

 

• Introduced a banking levy so the banks pay a their fair share of tax

 

• End the routine detention of children for immigration purposes

 

 

What have Liberal Democrats done for Bassetlaw?

 

• Lib Dems in Government have given a £20,000 grant to a project to improve local cycling and green travel at Retford town centre. The project involves a package of town centre improvements to existing facilities

 

• Lib Dems in Government have given £1,723,728 to support the local council to create 740 new homes in Bassetlaw, either new ones or by bringing back empty homes, helping create jobs and giving the local construction industry a much-needed boost.