1. Fighting a third runway: 

A Conservative government will stop plans for a third runway at Heathrow and will instead develop a high speed rail network. If you want to stop expansion, then a Conservative vote will achieve this.

For more information, please see: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Transport.aspx

2. MP expenses: 

 If Mary is elected to Parliament, she promises to:

• Not claim the allowance for an additional home in the centre of London
• Publish on her website details of all her office expenses incurred as the Member of Parliament
• Publish on her website details of all donations above £1,000, in line with Electoral Commission rules
• Open up her unedited expenses claims to local newspapers at the end of every financial year
• Never claim for day-to-day living expenses such as food, furniture or household goods
• Hold regular surgeries so that local residents can ask directly about issues important to them

3. The economy:

Five Conservative measures to help victims of the recession:

• A big, bold and simple National Loan Guarantee Scheme to help get credit flowing and save jobs.
• A two year Council Tax freeze across the country, worth over £200 for the typical family.
• Tax breaks for companies which create new jobs, and cuts in National Insurance and Corporation Tax for all small companies.
• Up to £6,500 worth of energy efficiency improvements for every household, saving energy and reducing bills.
• Abolish stamp duty for nine out of ten first-time buyers.

For more information, please see: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Economy.aspx

4. Crime: 

A Conservative government will clamp down on violent crime, through measures such as the introduction of a presumption that anybody caught carrying a knife should go to prison. We will also tackle the social failure that lies behind this criminal culture, by reforming our education and welfare systems. 

We will tackle crime in two ways:

• Effective prevention through curfew orders, powers to take young people off the streets, the introduction of national citizens' service and the introduction of an abstinence-based Drug Rehabilitation Order scheme to break the cycle of addiction and offending.
• Tough enforcement and sentencing through measures such as cutting police bureaucracy, better stop and search powers, mobile knife scanners on the streets and an end to automatic release from prison. We will also reform Young Offender Institutions and make governors accountable, as well as engaging the voluntary and private sector in drugs and education programmes to help young offenders go straight and support them on their release with mentoring and work programmes.

For more information, please see: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Crime_and_Justice.aspx

5. The NHS:

We are committed to increases in NHS spending year on year. We believe the NHS must become more efficient and productive if it is to meet the challenges of the years ahead.  But any savings must be reinvested to provide better care for patients.  We also do not want efficiency savings to lead to cuts in frontline care.  Instead, we would deliver them through our programme to slash bureaucracy.

Our plans to trust professionals and provide the right incentives for them and to put patient choice at the heart of the NHS will deliver the innovation and productivity gains needed to meet rising demand in a tough fiscal climate

For more information, please see: http://www.conservatives.com/Policy/Where_we_stand/Health.aspx