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and franchising, bus services, and road upgrades.”,”issue_10_devolved”:”0″,”issue_10_link”:””,”issue_10_link_message”:””,”issue_11″:”Democracy”,”issue_11_title”:”Democracy”,”issue_11_subtitle”:””,”issue_11_description”:”Including the future of devolution in Wales.”,”issue_11_devolved”:”0″,”issue_11_link”:””,”issue_11_link_message”:””,”party_1″:”Welsh Labour”,”party_1_website”:”https://www.welshlabour.wales/”,”party_1_colour”:””,”party_1_leader_1″:”Mark Drakeford”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* A new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeshipsu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limitu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Continue to work with NHS staff, armed forces and volunteers to get people vaccinatedu003cbr>* Further support Welsh workers and businesses with what it says is the most generous financial support in the UKu003cbr>* Launch programme of catch-up support for public services, including employing over 1,800 additional tutoring staff in schools and a new medical school in North Wales”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Continue business rates holiday for retail, leisure and hospitality businesses for a further 12 months, in combination with the Small Business Rates Relief scheme will mean more than 70,000 businesses will pay no rates at all in 2021-22u003cbr>* Establish a new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeships”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* New curriculum for Wales starting in 2022, focusing on higher standards of literacy and numeracy, ensuring our young people are more digitally and bilingually competent, and supporting pupils’ mental and emotional healthu003cbr>* Continue to protect the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Support for families to cover uniform and school equipment costs, and guaranteed free school meals through the holidays during the pandemic”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Free prescriptions and free hospital car parking will remain protectedu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limit”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Stress the importance of our economic, political and social links with the EU allowing businesses to trade Welsh goods across Europeu003cbr>* Continue with the implementation of the International Strategy which seeks to raise Wales’ profile, grow the economy and establish Wales as a globally responsible nation”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Create jobs across Wales with green energy, environmental protections and tourismu003cbr>* Abolish the use of the most littered single-use plastics, protecting the seas and countrysideu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales, for the benefits of equality and mental health as well as the environment”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Put the social partnership approach into law, and make Wales a genuinely Fair Work Nation\ru003cbr>* Continue to push the UK government to support Welsh families in areas it is responsible for and withdraw planned cuts to Universal Credit”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Build thousands of new low-carbon, affordable homes for rent and with it, create thousands of new jobs”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Deliver high-quality, sustainable public transport system for Walesu003cbr>* Keep the Wales and the Borders rail franchise in public ownershipu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trainsu003cbr>* Re-regulate the bus network, meaning easier access to local bus servicesu003cbr>* Invest in communities and infrastructure to help ensure more and more journeys are taken by foot or by bike”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Believe that the United Kingdom is a voluntary association of four nations, where power should be dispersed and not centralised, and where as much as possible decisions are made as close to people as they can be takenu003cbr>* Support a constitutional convention to develop a new settlement for the United Kingdom”,”party_2″:”Welsh Conservative Party”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.conservatives.wales/”,”party_2_colour”:””,”party_2_leader_1″:”Andrew RT Davies”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in North Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of West Walesu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh Governmentu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_2″:”* Appoint a dedicated Co-19 Recovery Minister in the Welsh government to oversee all areas of coronavirus recovery, including the vaccine rollout across Wales with every adult offered both doses by the end of October, and delivery of any booster shotsu003cbr>* Establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems due to the pandemic, especially NHS staff, care workers and families who have experienced trauma due to patients being alone at the time of their deathu003cbr>* Review and open funding for businesses on a needs basis, ending the first come first serve nature of current support for Welsh businesses by the Welsh government”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Create a one-stop shop for businesses in Wales by bringing together the Development Bank of Wales, Business Wales and recreating the best aspects of the Welsh Development Agency * * * Establish Innovate Wales, based in north Wales, a one-stop shop for firms to support new enterprises, and encourage existing businesses to grow and exportu003cbr>* Deliver a tax cut for small businesses by scrapping business ratesu003cbr>* Introduce a comeback package for seaside and market towns to level up with a Tourism Towns Fund, enabling communities to improve their local economy by attracting new visitors with free WiFi or improved transport linksu003cbr>* Establish a National Mission to grow the Welsh economy, with a clear target to create 65,000 new jobs. Once achieved, we will cut the basic rate of income tax to support hardworking families”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* End the underfunding of our young people and guarantee that more funding directly reaches the classroomu003cbr>* Fully scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate to allow pupils to focus on GCSEs, A-levels and vocational coursesu003cbr>* Introduce different routes to excellence with the expansion of apprenticeships, including degree apprenticeships”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has further deteriorated during the pandemic, utilising cross-border and independent facilities to speed up treatmentu003cbr>* Ensure that no one should wait more than one year for treatment in the NHS with our Patient Guaranteeu003cbr>* Deliver 1,200 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and other professionals through our ‘Retain, recruit and train’ programmeu003cbr>* Transform mental health services by treating it with the same priority as physical health”,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Support businesses to access new opportunities following Brexit using our one-stop shop to access investmentu003cbr>* Work with schools and universities to ensure that the most disadvantaged in our society are able to access the new Turing Schemeu003cbr>* Ensure that the Welsh government, with the UK government, liaises closely with the Republic of Ireland to ensure smooth imports and exports”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Introduce a Clean Air Act to cut pollution and reduce the incidence of respiratory diseaseu003cbr>* Ban single-use plastics for non-medical use such as plastic wet wipes, straws, stirrers, disposable cups and cotton buds, as well as creating a drinks deposit return schemeu003cbr>* Tackle climate change by ensuring Wales meets our net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050″,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a single point of access for benefits and support scheme administered in Wales, exploring the possibility of automatically passporting Universal Credit claimants to thisu003cbr>* Introduce a ‘housing first’ model for supporting people who are homelessu003cbr>* Support our older communities by maintaining free prescriptions, free bus travel and promote free entry to Cadw sites and pilot free rail travel for the over 75s”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Encourage aspiration by scrapping Land Transaction Tax for first-time buyers and raising the threshold to £250,000u003cbr>* Restore a reformed right to buy so more people can benefit from the security of owning their own homeu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in north Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of west Walesu003cbr>* Create a fast-charging network of 20,000 electric car charging stationsu003cbr>* Help young people access education, training and employment with free bus travel and discounted rail travel for 16-24 year olds”,”party_2_issue_11″:”* No increase in the number of Members of the Senedd in the next five years and without support of the publicu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh government – it needs to get on and use the power it has rather than push for moreu003cbr>* Work together with the UK government – not against it – to level-up the whole of Wales”,”party_3″:”Plaid Cymru”,”party_3_website”:”https://www.partyof.wales/”,”party_3_colour”:””,”party_3_leader_1″:”Adam Price”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staffu003cbr>* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Hold an independence referendum by 2026″,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Build the best National Health and Care Service by reducing waiting lists, building new cancer diagnostic centres and raising the hourly wage of care workers to at least £10u003cbr>* Create a £6bn Green Economic Stimulus, which, together with investments in healthcare, education, and the local economy, will generate 60,000 jobs over the next Senedd year term u003cbr>* Prioritising educational and wellbeing recovery by recruiting 2,000 extra teachers and 2,000 extra support staff in schools across Wales”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Zero interest loans to support small businesses to bounce back post-Cou003cbr>* Create Prosperity Wales, a dynamic new economic development agency, dedicated to growing small and medium-sized Welsh firms, boosting exports and creating jobs in every community”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staff, reducing class sizes, and valuing the teaching professionu003cbr>* Establish world-class early years education and childcare, offering 30 hours a week, free for all children from 24 months to school ageu003cbr>* Reduce the maximum tuition fee chargeable to Welsh-domiciled students at Welsh universities to £7,500″,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Build a National Health and Care Service where personal care is free at the point of needu003cbr>* Proe 6,000 extra healthcare professionals for Wales – 4,000 nurses, 1,000 doctors and 1,000 allied health professionalsu003cbr>* Make improving mental health a central goal, and establish a network of Youth Wellbeing Centres for mental and physical health support for young people throughout Wales”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* Investigate ways for Wales to continue to participate in the EU Erasmus programmeu003cbr>* Develop a new export strategy for Welsh business, focused on EU regions and nations like Ireland and Basque Country where there are already established relationshipsu003cbr>* Start planning for an independent Wales to join the European Free Trade Association”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Set a Wales-wide mission to generate 100% of electricity and reach zero emissions by 2035u003cbr>* Introduce a Nature Act with statutory targets to restore biodiversity by 2050u003cbr>* Commit to proing good quality and safe green space within a five-minute walk of all Welsh households”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* £35 per child weekly top-up payment to families living below the poverty line u003cbr>* Proe a lifelong learning entitlement for retraining worth £5,000 for everyone over 25 u003cbr>* Pilot a Universal Basic Income in Wales”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Launch the most ambitious public homes programme since the 1970s, creating 50,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy over the next five years\ru003cbr>* Permanently end rough sleeping on our streets through a rapid re-housing policy\ru003cbr>* End no-fault evictions and create a new system of fair rents for people in private rental accommodation\ru003cbr>* Cut the bills of average Council Tax payers, and use planning and tax powers to tackle the second homes crisis”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Aim to halve the proportion of journeys made by car by 2030 \ru003cbr>* Allocate at least 50 per cent of all capital transport spend on improving bus and train services\ru003cbr>* Create a new west coast rail line, connecting the north and south\ru003cbr>* Build a Valleys CrossRail, linking east and west”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Give the people of Wales a say on their future by holding an independence referendum by 2026\ru003cbr>* Create a statutory National Commission to oversee the process leading to the referendum, including drafting a Welsh Constitution, involving widespread consultation\ru003cbr>* Seek the immediate devolution of power over currently reserved matters, including policing and criminal justice, rail, welfare, broadcasting, large energy projects, and the Crown Estate”,”party_4″:”Reform Party UK”,”party_4_website”:”https://reformparty.uk/”,”party_4_colour”:””,”party_4_leader_1″:”Nathan Gill”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* Ensure no more lockdowns u003cbr>* Clear the NHS backlog caused by Co u003cbr>* Give parents the right to take their children on holiday for up to ten days”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Never have a full scale lockdown for Wales or any part of Walesu003cbr>* Establish expert advisery group looking at wider impact of policy on health system and economyu003cbr>* Keep schools, leisure and fitness facilities openu003cbr>* Never introduce vaccine passports and remove guidance for wearing masks in class”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Free up 1.2m small businesses and self-employed from paying coporation taxu003cbr>* Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates in Walesu003cbr>* Stimulate the north Wales economy by supporting Wylfa Newydd”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Make financial education a mandatory subject for all school children at GCSE levelu003cbr>* Allow parents to have the flexibility to take children out of the classroom for up to 10 days for those not in their GCSE yearsu003cbr>* Reform term dates and scrap a six-week holiday July/August”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Invest to clear the backlog of NHS waiting times over the next four yearsu003cbr>* Invest in community services to ensure everyone gets the support they need on mental health and normalise mental illness with powerful health promotion campaignsu003cbr>* Develop a medical model that focuses on prevention, recovery and co-production as well as cureu003cbr>* Develop a workforce policy that ensures adequate numbers of high quality and motivated staff are kept and recruited”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Work with our EU partners as well as the Rest of the World to develop trade deals that benefit both parties”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technologyu003cbr>* Work with Local Authorities to create an Electric Vehicle charging network model that funds public servicesu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Maintain free prescriptionsu003cbr>* Oppose Wales introducing higher rates of income tax than other parts of the UKu003cbr>* Nationally would reduce the number of people paying income tax by increasing the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 per annum”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Keep the current legislation that allows local authorities to charge up to 100% extra on empty and second homes, but introduce a policy to ensure the money raised goes directly back to the communities affected u003cbr>* Introduce planning permission for home owners that wish to seek a change of purpose for that home to a holiday let businessu003cbr>* Make it easier for local people to build a home in their local village or town”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for six new train stations and Valley line upgradesu003cbr>* Improve transport links between South and North Walesu003cbr>* Invest in improving road links in North Wales”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* We will actively campaign to remain a firm member of the United Kingdomu003cbr>* Oppose any increase in the number of Senedd membersu003cbr>* Hold a seperate election for the first ministeru003cbr>* Seek to devolve some powers of Welsh government to councils”,”party_5″:”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”,”party_5_colour”:””,”party_5_leader_1″:”Richard Suchorzewski”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr>* Restore one NHS u003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* A UK-led response rather than a fragmented four nation approach”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.u003cbr>* Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local Enterprise Partnerships. u003cbr>* Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* Retain UK curriculumu003cbr>* Restore consistency of exams and grading with Englandu003cbr>* Devolve matter of whether Welsh should be compulsory in non-Welsh medium schools to councilsu003cbr>* Support academies and free schoolsu003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* Restore one unified National Health Serviceu003cbr>* Put doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in Englandu003cbr>* Keep free prescriptions for the less well off, children, pregnant women and retirees, but use money paid for prescriptions by others for tackling the huge waiting lists in NHS following the Co crisis”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* Support Brexit on the basis determined by UK government following the vote by Wales and aim to leave EU”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Abolish Natural Resources Walesu003cbr>* Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impactsu003cbr>* Prioritise support for traditional Welsh hill farming”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of UK to Wales”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* End devolution of Land Transaction Tax, replacing with UK Stamp Duty Land Taxu003cbr>* Restore right to buy”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Sell Cardiff Airportu003cbr>* Build the M4 Relief Road as supported by Public Inquiry and working with Newport city council supported by UK governmentu003cbr>* A more integrated UK-led rail system”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Hold a referendum on scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr>* Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote"”,”party_6″:”Welsh Liberal Democrats”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Jane Dodds”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* Freeze business rates for the next 5 years and create an investment relief fund to enable businesses to invest. u003cbr>* Work towards re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, as part of the scheduled renegotiation with the EU in 2025, or earlier should the opportunity arise”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Tackle holiday hunger by proing free school meals throughout the school holidays for the next 5 years and investing in Food and Fun programmes during school summer holidaysu003cbr>* Expand degree apprenticeships, including at postgraduate level, diversifying the subject areas available, and creating more routes into employmentu003cbr>* Personal Learning Accounts to realise a right to lifelong learning, allowing people to upskill and retrain”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Implement the new Curriculum for Wales and ensure it has the resources needed to make it a successu003cbr>* Improve opportunities for disadvantaged learners to learn over school holidays and ensure they get a good mealu003cbr>* End digital exclusion at all levels of education, investing in devices and digital skills”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it u003cbr>* Support our carers by paying all social care workers the Real Living Wageu003cbr>* Putting in place properly funded catch-up plans for our health and care services so health workers and patients have certainty about their care, for example cancer and stroke services”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Push for tariff free trade as part of the Single Market and Customs Unionu003cbr>* Promote and facilitate opportunities for international collaboration in research and educationu003cbr>* Ensure Wales does not lose a penny of investment through the new Shared Prosperity Fund”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Pass a Green Homes Act to create a new green standard for Welsh homes and cut average household bills by up to £500 per yearu003cbr>* Tackle pollution and clean up the air we breathe with a Clean Air Act in the first 100 days”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Take meaningful steps towards becoming a Living Wage and Living Hours nationu003cbr>* Deliver universal access to free childcare from the age of 9 months, including wrap-around care for children in schoolu003cbr>* Pilot a trial of Universal Basic Income in Wales to proe a minimum standard of living for everyone”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Build 30,000 new social homes for rent over the next 5 years to ensure everyone has access to a safe place to call homeu003cbr>* Introduce a plan to end homelessness and invest in services to help prevent people being pushed into homeless and help to maintain a homeu003cbr>* Continue to invest in the Rent to Own scheme that has helped people to own their own home for the first time”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Introduce free bus transport for every young person under the age of 25 by 2025u003cbr>* Invest in safe routes to walk and cycle, allocating 10% of the transport budget in this area, to reduce pollution and encourage healthier habitsu003cbr>* Make sure public transport works for everyone. Our Bus Bill will ensure that bus routes meet community needs, ticket fares are affordable and flexible, timetables meet different needs, and bus stops and train stations are accessible.”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Ensure decisions are made closest to the people they affect within a Federal UK based on mutual respect and trustu003cbr>* Devolve justice and policing, whilst abolishing Wales’ four Police and Crime Commissioners. Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr>* Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters”,”party_7″:”UKIP Wales”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.ukip.wales/”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_leader_1″:”Neil Hamilton”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* End lockdown measures immediately u003cbr>* A referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government u003cbr>* Scrap Welsh government’s ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ policy for asylum seekers and refugees”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* End lockdowns immediately, enabling all businesses to re-open, and indiual freedom and travel to returnu003cbr>* Immediately halt ‘Vaccine Passport’ proposals and reviews, which seek to make vaccination mandatory under the threat of marginalisation from societyu003cbr>* Restore civil liberties, such as freedom of travel, freedom of association and freedom to attend events that have been taken away from us during the pandemic”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* Cut alcohol prices to reinvigorate the vital Welsh hospitality sector by cutting VAT on alcohol served in licensed premises. u003cbr>* Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by proing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest housesu003cbr>* Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh free ports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate and make the teaching of Welsh optional through the whole curriculum u003cbr>* Dismantle the four schools improvement consortia in Wales and redirect their annual £150m budget directly to schoolsu003cbr>* Scrap tuition fees for students studying degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at university proed that, after graduation, they stay in the UK and work in those fields during part of their student loan repayment periodu003cbr>* Put power back into the hands of parents by restoring and respecting their right to remove their children from relationship and sex education lessons and remove such lessons from primary schools altogether”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Introduce locally elected health boards, putting patients and families at the heart of NHS decision-makingu003cbr>* Dramatically increase the number of training places for British doctors, nurses and paramedics and ensure that the required number of nurses and doctors are trained in Wales and the UK rather than imported from abroad.u003cbr>* Reunite families with loved ones in care homes without delayu003cbr>* Ensure that those who have paid sufficient tax and NI will not be forced to use their savings and home to pay for social care”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Build on the untapped potential of the fishing industry in Wales by campaigning to take back full control of our watersu003cbr>* Deport bogus asylum seekers who currently cannot currently be removed as a result of loopholes in the European Convention on Human Rightsu003cbr>* Defend the togetherness and integrity of the United Kingdom by ditching the border in the Irish Sea and the damaging Northern Ireland Protocol”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Lobby the UK Government to scrap the Climate Change Act (2008)u003cbr>* Scrap all subsidies for so-called "green" energy projects which transfer money from taxpayers, including the poorest in society, to already rich environmental chancersu003cbr>* Champion the growth of British farming, fishing, food safety and animal welfare standardsu003cbr>* Push ahead with a post-Brexit ban of live animal exports for slaughter”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* Seek to minimise the use of zero-hour contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wageu003cbr>* Oppose the devolution of any further benefits to the Welsh Parliament. u003cbr>* Free prescriptions, Council Tax and Discretionary (Social) assistance benefits will remain under UKIPu003cbr>* End job discrimination and ensure applicants obtain roles based on merit, not on their ability to speak Welsh”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* Bring housing demand under control by implementing firm and fair immigration controlu003cbr>* Give local people a greater say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding local referendau003cbr>* Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Support the building of the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Sell Cardiff airport immediately to mitigate any further loss to Welsh taxpayers, so that a new owner can operate it on a proper commercial basisu003cbr>* Re-open train stations and railway lines to improve connectivity across Wales, where appropriate, by reviewing the Beeching cuts”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* Deliver a long overdue referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government at the earliest opportunityu003cbr>* Campaign to scrap the Senedd and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr>* Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr>* Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18″,”party_8″:”Propel”,”party_8_website”:”https://www.propel.wales/”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Neil McEvoy”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Formally end all lockdowns, committing not to return to them and to repeal ‘draconian’ policing powersu003cbr>* Establish a Welsh national energy company to extract gas reserves in former coal fields to replace use of imported gas.u003cbr>* A Modern Democracy Act to create a Welsh constitution and a bill of rights – giving the public the right to call national and local referendums”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Establish an independent and transparent enquiry into the Welsh government’s response to the coronavirus pandemicu003cbr>* Introduce a Coronavirus Recovery Act to end all lockdowns in Wales, repeal all "draconian" policing powers, tackle coronavirus through social distancing measures and shielding the vulnerable, reclassify gyms as essential services and will stay open, as will schools, and a policy of full transparency of all data and decisions takenu003cbr>* Renegotiate the furlough scheme to pay people impacted by Co restrictions to work safely, while continuing to support shielding of the vulnerable”,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Establish a Stock Exchange Cymru for listing Welsh companies who wish to publicly trade company shares\ru003cbr>* Create a Welsh Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop a long-term, sustainable portfolio of investments, under the Santiago Principles\ru003cbr>* Create eight co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses\ru003cbr>* Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export\ru003cbr>* Develop a new public procurement strategy to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Schools will stay open and will not be locked down\ru003cbr>* Pass a new Welsh Medium Education Act to bring together all existing legislative strands to proe unambiguous legal clarity in the future”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* Implement Robbie’s Law to make a duty of candour legally binding on medical practitioners and across the public sector, meaning they must be truthful in the event of mistakes or negligence\ru003cbr>* Establish independent, non-party political and elected Public Services Investigators (PSI) to investigate complaints about public services in Wales\ru003cbr>* Launch an independent audit of Welsh Government waste, fraud or corruption. Savings made will be redirected to the NHS.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Respect the results of the EU referendum, in which a majority of Welsh people voted to leave the European Union”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Establish a Welsh national energy company, majority owned by the Welsh Government and local authorities, for conventional extraction of Wales’ known gas reserves to replace use of imported gasu003cbr>* Cheaper energy supply will be used to support local employment in our key strategic industries, including steel and manufacturingu003cbr>* Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund with the revenue generated to achieve long-term energy independence through investment in renewable energyu003cbr>* Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technologyu003cbr>* Reject the building of any nuclear reactors and veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* A new public procurement strategy will be adopted to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* A ‘housing first’ policy to end Welsh homelessness and close the second homes loophole, whereby second homes are reclassified as businesses to avoid local taxation\ru003cbr>* Bring in an annual service charge cap for leaseholders, linked to the Consumer Price Index\ru003cbr>* Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments\ru003cbr>* Introduce a new Right to Buy scheme for social housing tenants, with all revenue directed towards building more quality social housing\ru003cbr>* Set compulsory targets for local authorities to bring long-term empty properties back into use\ru003cbr>* Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture\ru003cbr>* Guarantee that all military veterans who have seen active service will be prioritised for public housing and healthcare”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Upgrade Wales’ strategic road network to expressway standard, including a North-South National Expressway\ru003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen and Afon Wen to Bangor railway lines\ru003cbr>* A single ticketing system for public transport journeys”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Create a Welsh constitution and bill of rights. The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr>* The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr>* Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr>* The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr>* The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr>* Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr>* Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs”,”party_9″:”Communist Party of Great Britain”,”party_9_website”:”https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wales/”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Robert Griffiths”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Build 10,000 council homes a year”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* Applaud work of NHS staff during the pandemicu003cbr>* Nationalise pharmaceutical companiesu003cbr>* Invest in super-fast broadband to encourage more working from home”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Take failing compaines into ‘democratic public ownership’u003cbr>* Create a Welsh National Economic Development Authority with the power to direct investment of private capitalu003cbr>* Replace council tax with a local income tax”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* Abolish private educationu003cbr>* Create an alternative assessment system to replace the ‘exam factory’u003cbr>* Welsh-medium schools and nurseries available in every part of Wales”,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Create ‘primary health partnerships’ of GPs, councils, residents, housing associations, schools and health professionals to assess the long-term health needs of communitiesu003cbr>* A National Care Service with residential and nursing services free at the point of needu003cbr>* A standard employment contract for care workers”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Wales voted to leave the "capitalist big business" EU and Brexit means "new opportunities" for Wales”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Increased investment in renewable energy including tidal power and off-shore wind farmsu003cbr>* Support clean coal with carbon capture from deep miningu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear power "until it can be demonstrated a safe nuclear fusion option is available"”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Outlaw asset-stripping, mass redundancies and company "fire and rehire" schemesu003cbr>* Extend maternity and paternity leaveu003cbr>* Free childcare from birth for parents who want to return to work”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Build 10,000 council homes a yearu003cbr>* Higher tax on vacant landu003cbr>* All social housing brought back under local authority control”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Capped travel costs for young people”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Wealth tax to redistribute wealth across nations and regions of Britain”,”party_10″:”Gwlad”,”party_10_website”:”https://gwlad.org/en/”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Gwyn Wigley Evans”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currencyu003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newportu003cbr>* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* Proe young people in ‘working from home’ situations with options where they can find suitable workspaces together with appropriate support and mentoringu003cbr>* Fast-track planning applications for change of use that involve the conversion of commercial property to residential use”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* All publicly funded contracts should include provision for sustainable local content to ensure that money spent by the Welsh Government and local authorities is spent in Wales wherever possibleu003cbr>* Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure proers, educational institutions and funding bodies”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"u003cbr>* Humanities curriculum in schools to prioritise learning of Welsh history, traditions, culture and values u003cbr>* Student funding only given to students studying in Welsh institutions, other than for subjects not offered within Wales”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Smaller GP clinics combined into ‘polyclinics’, also proing outpatient services u003cbr>* Fee reductions for students studying medicine in Wales who undertake to work in Wales for a certain period of time on graduating”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* Keep open the option of a ‘re-join’ referendum if circumstances change u003cbr>* Seek to emulate New Zealand in expanding global trade”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Support investment in alternative technologies such as hydrogen technology as a way of storing, transporting and consuming energy generated by renewable methods u003cbr>* Not anti-nuclear in principle, but oppose large projects such as Wylfa Bu003cbr>* Take all water assets within Wales into public ownership and to place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit’ Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Welsh Revenue Authority takes responsibility for accurately accounting for all the taxation revenue generated within Wales u003cbr>* Post-independence – replace the current benefits and taxation system with Citizens’ Income and Flat Tax”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Require a licence for owning a second home, with the council charge surcharge set at 500% u003cbr>* Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property u003cbr>* A new Wales National Housing Agency”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* A 2/3 lane ‘Powys Spine Road’ along the A470 & A483 corridors u003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport u003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency u003cbr>* Referendum on whether to retain the monarchy u003cbr>* Single Transferrable Vote (STV) system to be used for elections”,”party_11″:”Wales Green Party”,”party_11_website”:”https://wales.greenparty.org.uk/”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Anthony Slaughter”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Green Transformation Fund to raise and direct money locally into communities to create 10k jobs in the green economy and homebuildingu003cbr>* Secure the future of the NHS by joining up health and social care, and investing in much better local health servicesu003cbr>* Fix the climate emergency, go carbon zero by 2030 and work to restore nature”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Ensure that Wales’ recovery from the pandemic is both fair and green\ru003cbr>* Establish a public inquiry into the Welsh government’s handling of the pandemic \ru003cbr>* Proe further protections against transmission in schools by introducing effective protections to make them safer”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Deliver a sustainable Wales with an ambitious Green New Deal that creates tens of thousands of new jobs \ru003cbr>* Ensure low rent and rates for existing small business, creative enterprises, and social and environmental start-ups to fill empty shops and bring back life to our high streets\ru003cbr>* Call for the immediate introduction of a Universal Basic Income that shares prosperity across society”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Stop the ongoing closure of small rural schoolsu003cbr>* Proe access to electronic devices for all children who need to learn from home, and access to structured programmes of work if they are unable to attend schoolu003cbr>* Widen access to higher and further education, ensuring that no fees are payable for initial degrees”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Safeguard the NHS as a free at the point of delivery, publicly-funded body\ru003cbr>* Ensuring that health boards and local authorities have the funding needed to increase capacity across all areas of health and social care provision\ru003cbr>* Ensure neighbourhood access to all treatments that can be made available locally\ru003cbr>* Provision of social support for disabled people, older people and their carers will be given early and quickly, enabling all to live fulfilled lives”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* Work to strengthen our bonds with our European neighbours and allies at every level, promoting future positive opportunities and tackling the damage caused to Wales by Brexitu003cbr>* Push for the UK government to seek ways to re-join the EU customs union as a matter of urgencyu003cbr>* Support efforts to re-join the Erasmus+ programme and work with all parties to maximise the educational and cultural opportunities available to our young people across Europe”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* Tackle the climate emergency by ensuring that carbon emission reduction targets are met at the scale and pace needed, as demanded by the science\ru003cbr>* Deliver a Green vision for net zero by 2030, replacing fossil fuels with onshore and offshore renewable energy and making necessary upgrades to the electricity grid\ru003cbr>* Appoint a new Welsh Government Commissioner for Biodiversity and Animal Protection to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Wales \ru003cbr>* Propose a bill to ban single-use plastic and legislation to progressively reduce all non-recyclable packaging waste, with a goal for an overall reduction on packaging”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Advocate for a four-day week to share work opportunities and respond to the greater automation and digitisation of manufacturing and servicesu003cbr>* Bring unions into local economy planning and proe workers with support for social and environmental business start-upsu003cbr>* Improve wages and working conditions for front-line workers, partly through UBI, but also through improved public service and care workers pay settlements, workers’ rights in collective bargaining, employment rights and health and safetyu003cbr>* End the ‘gig’ economy in Wales and exploitative zero-hours contracts through UBI and the extension of worker’s rights”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Build 12,000 new homes every year, built to the highest environmental and energy efficiency standards\ru003cbr>* Ensure sufficient, ongoing investment to enable the retrofitting of existing housing stock to the highest energy efficient standards, lifting thousands out of fuel poverty\ru003cbr>* Proe greater security for tenants by phasing out Assured Shorthold Tenancies in the private sector and proe those struggling with mortgage arrears with security of tenure through a ‘Right to Rent’ scheme”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Create better, affordable, cleaner transport options for all, including access to better walking, cycling and other active travel options and affordable public transportu003cbr>* Introduce a national transport strategy that responds to the climate emergency by reducing traffic and carbon emissions, while improving health, wellbeing and air quality u003cbr>* Introduce free public transport for local journeys for those aged under 21 to engender the use of public transportu003cbr>* Resist any attempts to reopen the proposals for the cancelled M4 relief road”,”party_11_issue_11″:”* Support the aspiration for an independent and fully democratic Wales, bringing decision making to those people most affected by those decisionsu003cbr>* Campaign for Wales to secede from the United Kingdom in any future referendumu003cbr>* Strengthen local democracy by increasing citizen engagement through citizen’s juries, people’s assemblies, and similar bodies”},”englishVocab”:{“choose_issue”:”What are the parties promising you?”,”choose_issue_sub”:”Select an issue and a party to see their policies”,”expand_all”:”Expand all”,”collapse_all”:”Collapse all”,”leader_heading”:”Leader”,”leader_heading_plural”:”Leaders”,”pledges_heading”:”Main policies”,”change_issue”:”Change issue”,”devolved_message”:”This issue is u003cb> devolved or partly devolved u003c/b>”,”devolved_link”:”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54974078″,”devolved_link_message”:”Find out what this means for you”,”party_website_message”:”See party website”,”icon_alt_text”:”icon”,”issue_1″:”Top priorities”,”issue_1_title”:”Main policies”,”issue_1_subtitle”:””,”issue_1_description”:””,”issue_1_devolved”:”0″,”issue_1_link”:””,”issue_1_link_message”:”Find out more about top priorities here”,”issue_2″:”Co-19″,”issue_2_title”:”Co-19″,”issue_2_subtitle”:””,”issue_2_description”:”Including future containment measures and the rollout of vaccines.”,”issue_2_devolved”:”0″,”issue_2_link”:””,”issue_2_link_message”:””,”issue_3″:”Economy”,”issue_3_title”:”Economy”,”issue_3_subtitle”:””,”issue_3_description”:”Covering infrastructure investment, business taxes, and support for industry.”,”issue_3_devolved”:”0″,”issue_3_link”:””,”issue_3_link_message”:””,”issue_4″:”Education”,”issue_4_title”:”Education”,”issue_4_subtitle”:””,”issue_4_description”:”Covering school and university funding, salaries, school testing and inspection, and university tuition fees.”,”issue_4_devolved”:”0″,”issue_4_link”:””,”issue_4_link_message”:””,”issue_5″:”NHS and care”,”issue_5_title”:”NHS and care”,”issue_5_subtitle”:””,”issue_5_description”:”Covering hospitals, GPs, dentists, funding, staffing, waiting times, mental health and social care.”,”issue_5_devolved”:”0″,”issue_5_link”:””,”issue_5_link_message”:””,”issue_6″:”EU relations”,”issue_6_title”:”EU relations”,”issue_6_subtitle”:””,”issue_6_description”:”Including trade and our future relationship with Europe.”,”issue_6_devolved”:”0″,”issue_6_link”:””,”issue_6_link_message”:””,”issue_7″:”Environment”,”issue_7_title”:”Environment”,”issue_7_subtitle”:””,”issue_7_description”:”Covering climate change, emissions targets, renewable energy, plastic use, recycling, energy efficiency and air pollution.”,”issue_7_devolved”:”0″,”issue_7_link”:””,”issue_7_link_message”:””,”issue_8″:”Work and benefits”,”issue_8_title”:”Work and benefits”,”issue_8_subtitle”:””,”issue_8_description”:”Including childcare, tackling poverty and council tax benefit.”,”issue_8_devolved”:”0″,”issue_8_link”:””,”issue_8_link_message”:””,”issue_9″:”Housing”,”issue_9_title”:”Housing”,”issue_9_subtitle”:””,”issue_9_description”:”Including house building, home ownership, social housing, homelessness and tenants rights.”,”issue_9_devolved”:”0″,”issue_9_link”:””,”issue_9_link_message”:””,”issue_10″:”Transport”,”issue_10_title”:”Transport”,”issue_10_subtitle”:””,”issue_10_description”:”Covering rail ownership and franchising, bus services, and road upgrades.”,”issue_10_devolved”:”0″,”issue_10_link”:””,”issue_10_link_message”:””,”issue_11″:”Democracy”,”issue_11_title”:”Democracy”,”issue_11_subtitle”:””,”issue_11_description”:”Including the future of devolution in Wales.”,”issue_11_devolved”:”0″,”issue_11_link”:””,”issue_11_link_message”:””,”party_1″:”Welsh Labour”,”party_1_website”:”https://www.welshlabour.wales/”,”party_1_colour”:””,”party_1_leader_1″:”Mark Drakeford”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* A new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeshipsu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limitu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Continue to work with NHS staff, armed forces and volunteers to get people vaccinatedu003cbr>* Further support Welsh workers and businesses with what it says is the most generous financial support in the UKu003cbr>* Launch programme of catch-up support for public services, including employing over 1,800 additional tutoring staff in schools and a new medical school in North Wales”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Continue business rates holiday for retail, leisure and hospitality businesses for a further 12 months, in combination with the Small Business Rates Relief scheme will mean more than 70,000 businesses will pay no rates at all in 2021-22u003cbr>* Establish a new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeships”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* New curriculum for Wales starting in 2022, focusing on higher standards of literacy and numeracy, ensuring our young people are more digitally and bilingually competent, and supporting pupils’ mental and emotional healthu003cbr>* Continue to protect the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Support for families to cover uniform and school equipment costs, and guaranteed free school meals through the holidays during the pandemic”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Free prescriptions and free hospital car parking will remain protectedu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limit”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Stress the importance of our economic, political and social links with the EU allowing businesses to trade Welsh goods across Europeu003cbr>* Continue with the implementation of the International Strategy which seeks to raise Wales’ profile, grow the economy and establish Wales as a globally responsible nation”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Create jobs across Wales with green energy, environmental protections and tourismu003cbr>* Abolish the use of the most littered single-use plastics, protecting the seas and countrysideu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales, for the benefits of equality and mental health as well as the environment”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Put the social partnership approach into law, and make Wales a genuinely Fair Work Nation\ru003cbr>* Continue to push the UK government to support Welsh families in areas it is responsible for and withdraw planned cuts to Universal Credit”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Build thousands of new low-carbon, affordable homes for rent and with it, create thousands of new jobs”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Deliver high-quality, sustainable public transport system for Walesu003cbr>* Keep the Wales and the Borders rail franchise in public ownershipu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trainsu003cbr>* Re-regulate the bus network, meaning easier access to local bus servicesu003cbr>* Invest in communities and infrastructure to help ensure more and more journeys are taken by foot or by bike”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Believe that the United Kingdom is a voluntary association of four nations, where power should be dispersed and not centralised, and where as much as possible decisions are made as close to people as they can be takenu003cbr>* Support a constitutional convention to develop a new settlement for the United Kingdom”,”party_2″:”Welsh Conservative Party”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.conservatives.wales/”,”party_2_colour”:””,”party_2_leader_1″:”Andrew RT Davies”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in North Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of West Walesu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh Governmentu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_2″:”* Appoint a dedicated Co-19 Recovery Minister in the Welsh government to oversee all areas of coronavirus recovery, including the vaccine rollout across Wales with every adult offered both doses by the end of October, and delivery of any booster shotsu003cbr>* Establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems due to the pandemic, especially NHS staff, care workers and families who have experienced trauma due to patients being alone at the time of their deathu003cbr>* Review and open funding for businesses on a needs basis, ending the first come first serve nature of current support for Welsh businesses by the Welsh government”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Create a one-stop shop for businesses in Wales by bringing together the Development Bank of Wales, Business Wales and recreating the best aspects of the Welsh Development Agency * * * Establish Innovate Wales, based in north Wales, a one-stop shop for firms to support new enterprises, and encourage existing businesses to grow and exportu003cbr>* Deliver a tax cut for small businesses by scrapping business ratesu003cbr>* Introduce a comeback package for seaside and market towns to level up with a Tourism Towns Fund, enabling communities to improve their local economy by attracting new visitors with free WiFi or improved transport linksu003cbr>* Establish a National Mission to grow the Welsh economy, with a clear target to create 65,000 new jobs. Once achieved, we will cut the basic rate of income tax to support hardworking families”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* End the underfunding of our young people and guarantee that more funding directly reaches the classroomu003cbr>* Fully scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate to allow pupils to focus on GCSEs, A-levels and vocational coursesu003cbr>* Introduce different routes to excellence with the expansion of apprenticeships, including degree apprenticeships”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has further deteriorated during the pandemic, utilising cross-border and independent facilities to speed up treatmentu003cbr>* Ensure that no one should wait more than one year for treatment in the NHS with our Patient Guaranteeu003cbr>* Deliver 1,200 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and other professionals through our ‘Retain, recruit and train’ programmeu003cbr>* Transform mental health services by treating it with the same priority as physical health”,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Support businesses to access new opportunities following Brexit using our one-stop shop to access investmentu003cbr>* Work with schools and universities to ensure that the most disadvantaged in our society are able to access the new Turing Schemeu003cbr>* Ensure that the Welsh government, with the UK government, liaises closely with the Republic of Ireland to ensure smooth imports and exports”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Introduce a Clean Air Act to cut pollution and reduce the incidence of respiratory diseaseu003cbr>* Ban single-use plastics for non-medical use such as plastic wet wipes, straws, stirrers, disposable cups and cotton buds, as well as creating a drinks deposit return schemeu003cbr>* Tackle climate change by ensuring Wales meets our net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050″,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a single point of access for benefits and support scheme administered in Wales, exploring the possibility of automatically passporting Universal Credit claimants to thisu003cbr>* Introduce a ‘housing first’ model for supporting people who are homelessu003cbr>* Support our older communities by maintaining free prescriptions, free bus travel and promote free entry to Cadw sites and pilot free rail travel for the over 75s”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Encourage aspiration by scrapping Land Transaction Tax for first-time buyers and raising the threshold to £250,000u003cbr>* Restore a reformed right to buy so more people can benefit from the security of owning their own homeu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in north Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of west Walesu003cbr>* Create a fast-charging network of 20,000 electric car charging stationsu003cbr>* Help young people access education, training and employment with free bus travel and discounted rail travel for 16-24 year olds”,”party_2_issue_11″:”* No increase in the number of Members of the Senedd in the next five years and without support of the publicu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh government – it needs to get on and use the power it has rather than push for moreu003cbr>* Work together with the UK government – not against it – to level-up the whole of Wales”,”party_3″:”Plaid Cymru”,”party_3_website”:”https://www.partyof.wales/”,”party_3_colour”:””,”party_3_leader_1″:”Adam Price”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staffu003cbr>* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Hold an independence referendum by 2026″,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Build the best National Health and Care Service by reducing waiting lists, building new cancer diagnostic centres and raising the hourly wage of care workers to at least £10u003cbr>* Create a £6bn Green Economic Stimulus, which, together with investments in healthcare, education, and the local economy, will generate 60,000 jobs over the next Senedd year term u003cbr>* Prioritising educational and wellbeing recovery by recruiting 2,000 extra teachers and 2,000 extra support staff in schools across Wales”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Zero interest loans to support small businesses to bounce back post-Cou003cbr>* Create Prosperity Wales, a dynamic new economic development agency, dedicated to growing small and medium-sized Welsh firms, boosting exports and creating jobs in every community”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staff, reducing class sizes, and valuing the teaching professionu003cbr>* Establish world-class early years education and childcare, offering 30 hours a week, free for all children from 24 months to school ageu003cbr>* Reduce the maximum tuition fee chargeable to Welsh-domiciled students at Welsh universities to £7,500″,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Build a National Health and Care Service where personal care is free at the point of needu003cbr>* Proe 6,000 extra healthcare professionals for Wales – 4,000 nurses, 1,000 doctors and 1,000 allied health professionalsu003cbr>* Make improving mental health a central goal, and establish a network of Youth Wellbeing Centres for mental and physical health support for young people throughout Wales”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* Investigate ways for Wales to continue to participate in the EU Erasmus programmeu003cbr>* Develop a new export strategy for Welsh business, focused on EU regions and nations like Ireland and Basque Country where there are already established relationshipsu003cbr>* Start planning for an independent Wales to join the European Free Trade Association”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Set a Wales-wide mission to generate 100% of electricity and reach zero emissions by 2035u003cbr>* Introduce a Nature Act with statutory targets to restore biodiversity by 2050u003cbr>* Commit to proing good quality and safe green space within a five-minute walk of all Welsh households”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* £35 per child weekly top-up payment to families living below the poverty line u003cbr>* Proe a lifelong learning entitlement for retraining worth £5,000 for everyone over 25 u003cbr>* Pilot a Universal Basic Income in Wales”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Launch the most ambitious public homes programme since the 1970s, creating 50,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy over the next five years\ru003cbr>* Permanently end rough sleeping on our streets through a rapid re-housing policy\ru003cbr>* End no-fault evictions and create a new system of fair rents for people in private rental accommodation\ru003cbr>* Cut the bills of average Council Tax payers, and use planning and tax powers to tackle the second homes crisis”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Aim to halve the proportion of journeys made by car by 2030 \ru003cbr>* Allocate at least 50 per cent of all capital transport spend on improving bus and train services\ru003cbr>* Create a new west coast rail line, connecting the north and south\ru003cbr>* Build a Valleys CrossRail, linking east and west”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Give the people of Wales a say on their future by holding an independence referendum by 2026\ru003cbr>* Create a statutory National Commission to oversee the process leading to the referendum, including drafting a Welsh Constitution, involving widespread consultation\ru003cbr>* Seek the immediate devolution of power over currently reserved matters, including policing and criminal justice, rail, welfare, broadcasting, large energy projects, and the Crown Estate”,”party_4″:”Reform Party UK”,”party_4_website”:”https://reformparty.uk/”,”party_4_colour”:””,”party_4_leader_1″:”Nathan Gill”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* Ensure no more lockdowns u003cbr>* Clear the NHS backlog caused by Co u003cbr>* Give parents the right to take their children on holiday for up to ten days”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Never have a full scale lockdown for Wales or any part of Walesu003cbr>* Establish expert advisery group looking at wider impact of policy on health system and economyu003cbr>* Keep schools, leisure and fitness facilities openu003cbr>* Never introduce vaccine passports and remove guidance for wearing masks in class”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Free up 1.2m small businesses and self-employed from paying coporation taxu003cbr>* Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates in Walesu003cbr>* Stimulate the north Wales economy by supporting Wylfa Newydd”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Make financial education a mandatory subject for all school children at GCSE levelu003cbr>* Allow parents to have the flexibility to take children out of the classroom for up to 10 days for those not in their GCSE yearsu003cbr>* Reform term dates and scrap a six-week holiday July/August”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Invest to clear the backlog of NHS waiting times over the next four yearsu003cbr>* Invest in community services to ensure everyone gets the support they need on mental health and normalise mental illness with powerful health promotion campaignsu003cbr>* Develop a medical model that focuses on prevention, recovery and co-production as well as cureu003cbr>* Develop a workforce policy that ensures adequate numbers of high quality and motivated staff are kept and recruited”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Work with our EU partners as well as the Rest of the World to develop trade deals that benefit both parties”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technologyu003cbr>* Work with Local Authorities to create an Electric Vehicle charging network model that funds public servicesu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Maintain free prescriptionsu003cbr>* Oppose Wales introducing higher rates of income tax than other parts of the UKu003cbr>* Nationally would reduce the number of people paying income tax by increasing the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 per annum”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Keep the current legislation that allows local authorities to charge up to 100% extra on empty and second homes, but introduce a policy to ensure the money raised goes directly back to the communities affected u003cbr>* Introduce planning permission for home owners that wish to seek a change of purpose for that home to a holiday let businessu003cbr>* Make it easier for local people to build a home in their local village or town”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for six new train stations and Valley line upgradesu003cbr>* Improve transport links between South and North Walesu003cbr>* Invest in improving road links in North Wales”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* We will actively campaign to remain a firm member of the United Kingdomu003cbr>* Oppose any increase in the number of Senedd membersu003cbr>* Hold a seperate election for the first ministeru003cbr>* Seek to devolve some powers of Welsh government to councils”,”party_5″:”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”,”party_5_colour”:””,”party_5_leader_1″:”Richard Suchorzewski”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr>* Restore one NHS u003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* A UK-led response rather than a fragmented four nation approach”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.u003cbr>* Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local Enterprise Partnerships. u003cbr>* Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* Retain UK curriculumu003cbr>* Restore consistency of exams and grading with Englandu003cbr>* Devolve matter of whether Welsh should be compulsory in non-Welsh medium schools to councilsu003cbr>* Support academies and free schoolsu003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* Restore one unified National Health Serviceu003cbr>* Put doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in Englandu003cbr>* Keep free prescriptions for the less well off, children, pregnant women and retirees, but use money paid for prescriptions by others for tackling the huge waiting lists in NHS following the Co crisis”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* Support Brexit on the basis determined by UK government following the vote by Wales and aim to leave EU”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Abolish Natural Resources Walesu003cbr>* Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impactsu003cbr>* Prioritise support for traditional Welsh hill farming”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of UK to Wales”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* End devolution of Land Transaction Tax, replacing with UK Stamp Duty Land Taxu003cbr>* Restore right to buy”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Sell Cardiff Airportu003cbr>* Build the M4 Relief Road as supported by Public Inquiry and working with Newport city council supported by UK governmentu003cbr>* A more integrated UK-led rail system”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Hold a referendum on scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr>* Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote"”,”party_6″:”Welsh Liberal Democrats”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Jane Dodds”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* Freeze business rates for the next 5 years and create an investment relief fund to enable businesses to invest. u003cbr>* Work towards re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, as part of the scheduled renegotiation with the EU in 2025, or earlier should the opportunity arise”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Tackle holiday hunger by proing free school meals throughout the school holidays for the next 5 years and investing in Food and Fun programmes during school summer holidaysu003cbr>* Expand degree apprenticeships, including at postgraduate level, diversifying the subject areas available, and creating more routes into employmentu003cbr>* Personal Learning Accounts to realise a right to lifelong learning, allowing people to upskill and retrain”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Implement the new Curriculum for Wales and ensure it has the resources needed to make it a successu003cbr>* Improve opportunities for disadvantaged learners to learn over school holidays and ensure they get a good mealu003cbr>* End digital exclusion at all levels of education, investing in devices and digital skills”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it u003cbr>* Support our carers by paying all social care workers the Real Living Wageu003cbr>* Putting in place properly funded catch-up plans for our health and care services so health workers and patients have certainty about their care, for example cancer and stroke services”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Push for tariff free trade as part of the Single Market and Customs Unionu003cbr>* Promote and facilitate opportunities for international collaboration in research and educationu003cbr>* Ensure Wales does not lose a penny of investment through the new Shared Prosperity Fund”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Pass a Green Homes Act to create a new green standard for Welsh homes and cut average household bills by up to £500 per yearu003cbr>* Tackle pollution and clean up the air we breathe with a Clean Air Act in the first 100 days”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Take meaningful steps towards becoming a Living Wage and Living Hours nationu003cbr>* Deliver universal access to free childcare from the age of 9 months, including wrap-around care for children in schoolu003cbr>* Pilot a trial of Universal Basic Income in Wales to proe a minimum standard of living for everyone”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Build 30,000 new social homes for rent over the next 5 years to ensure everyone has access to a safe place to call homeu003cbr>* Introduce a plan to end homelessness and invest in services to help prevent people being pushed into homeless and help to maintain a homeu003cbr>* Continue to invest in the Rent to Own scheme that has helped people to own their own home for the first time”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Introduce free bus transport for every young person under the age of 25 by 2025u003cbr>* Invest in safe routes to walk and cycle, allocating 10% of the transport budget in this area, to reduce pollution and encourage healthier habitsu003cbr>* Make sure public transport works for everyone. Our Bus Bill will ensure that bus routes meet community needs, ticket fares are affordable and flexible, timetables meet different needs, and bus stops and train stations are accessible.”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Ensure decisions are made closest to the people they affect within a Federal UK based on mutual respect and trustu003cbr>* Devolve justice and policing, whilst abolishing Wales’ four Police and Crime Commissioners. Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr>* Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters”,”party_7″:”UKIP Wales”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.ukip.wales/”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_leader_1″:”Neil Hamilton”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* End lockdown measures immediately u003cbr>* A referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government u003cbr>* Scrap Welsh government’s ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ policy for asylum seekers and refugees”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* End lockdowns immediately, enabling all businesses to re-open, and indiual freedom and travel to returnu003cbr>* Immediately halt ‘Vaccine Passport’ proposals and reviews, which seek to make vaccination mandatory under the threat of marginalisation from societyu003cbr>* Restore civil liberties, such as freedom of travel, freedom of association and freedom to attend events that have been taken away from us during the pandemic”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* Cut alcohol prices to reinvigorate the vital Welsh hospitality sector by cutting VAT on alcohol served in licensed premises. u003cbr>* Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by proing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest housesu003cbr>* Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh free ports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate and make the teaching of Welsh optional through the whole curriculum u003cbr>* Dismantle the four schools improvement consortia in Wales and redirect their annual £150m budget directly to schoolsu003cbr>* Scrap tuition fees for students studying degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at university proed that, after graduation, they stay in the UK and work in those fields during part of their student loan repayment periodu003cbr>* Put power back into the hands of parents by restoring and respecting their right to remove their children from relationship and sex education lessons and remove such lessons from primary schools altogether”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Introduce locally elected health boards, putting patients and families at the heart of NHS decision-makingu003cbr>* Dramatically increase the number of training places for British doctors, nurses and paramedics and ensure that the required number of nurses and doctors are trained in Wales and the UK rather than imported from abroad.u003cbr>* Reunite families with loved ones in care homes without delayu003cbr>* Ensure that those who have paid sufficient tax and NI will not be forced to use their savings and home to pay for social care”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Build on the untapped potential of the fishing industry in Wales by campaigning to take back full control of our watersu003cbr>* Deport bogus asylum seekers who currently cannot currently be removed as a result of loopholes in the European Convention on Human Rightsu003cbr>* Defend the togetherness and integrity of the United Kingdom by ditching the border in the Irish Sea and the damaging Northern Ireland Protocol”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Lobby the UK Government to scrap the Climate Change Act (2008)u003cbr>* Scrap all subsidies for so-called "green" energy projects which transfer money from taxpayers, including the poorest in society, to already rich environmental chancersu003cbr>* Champion the growth of British farming, fishing, food safety and animal welfare standardsu003cbr>* Push ahead with a post-Brexit ban of live animal exports for slaughter”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* Seek to minimise the use of zero-hour contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wageu003cbr>* Oppose the devolution of any further benefits to the Welsh Parliament. u003cbr>* Free prescriptions, Council Tax and Discretionary (Social) assistance benefits will remain under UKIPu003cbr>* End job discrimination and ensure applicants obtain roles based on merit, not on their ability to speak Welsh”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* Bring housing demand under control by implementing firm and fair immigration controlu003cbr>* Give local people a greater say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding local referendau003cbr>* Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Support the building of the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Sell Cardiff airport immediately to mitigate any further loss to Welsh taxpayers, so that a new owner can operate it on a proper commercial basisu003cbr>* Re-open train stations and railway lines to improve connectivity across Wales, where appropriate, by reviewing the Beeching cuts”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* Deliver a long overdue referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government at the earliest opportunityu003cbr>* Campaign to scrap the Senedd and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr>* Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr>* Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18″,”party_8″:”Propel”,”party_8_website”:”https://www.propel.wales/”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Neil McEvoy”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Formally end all lockdowns, committing not to return to them and to repeal ‘draconian’ policing powersu003cbr>* Establish a Welsh national energy company to extract gas reserves in former coal fields to replace use of imported gas.u003cbr>* A Modern Democracy Act to create a Welsh constitution and a bill of rights – giving the public the right to call national and local referendums”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Establish an independent and transparent enquiry into the Welsh government’s response to the coronavirus pandemicu003cbr>* Introduce a Coronavirus Recovery Act to end all lockdowns in Wales, repeal all "draconian" policing powers, tackle coronavirus through social distancing measures and shielding the vulnerable, reclassify gyms as essential services and will stay open, as will schools, and a policy of full transparency of all data and decisions takenu003cbr>* Renegotiate the furlough scheme to pay people impacted by Co restrictions to work safely, while continuing to support shielding of the vulnerable”,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Establish a Stock Exchange Cymru for listing Welsh companies who wish to publicly trade company shares\ru003cbr>* Create a Welsh Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop a long-term, sustainable portfolio of investments, under the Santiago Principles\ru003cbr>* Create eight co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses\ru003cbr>* Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export\ru003cbr>* Develop a new public procurement strategy to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Schools will stay open and will not be locked down\ru003cbr>* Pass a new Welsh Medium Education Act to bring together all existing legislative strands to proe unambiguous legal clarity in the future”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* Implement Robbie’s Law to make a duty of candour legally binding on medical practitioners and across the public sector, meaning they must be truthful in the event of mistakes or negligence\ru003cbr>* Establish independent, non-party political and elected Public Services Investigators (PSI) to investigate complaints about public services in Wales\ru003cbr>* Launch an independent audit of Welsh Government waste, fraud or corruption. Savings made will be redirected to the NHS.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Respect the results of the EU referendum, in which a majority of Welsh people voted to leave the European Union”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Establish a Welsh national energy company, majority owned by the Welsh Government and local authorities, for conventional extraction of Wales’ known gas reserves to replace use of imported gasu003cbr>* Cheaper energy supply will be used to support local employment in our key strategic industries, including steel and manufacturingu003cbr>* Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund with the revenue generated to achieve long-term energy independence through investment in renewable energyu003cbr>* Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technologyu003cbr>* Reject the building of any nuclear reactors and veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* A new public procurement strategy will be adopted to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* A ‘housing first’ policy to end Welsh homelessness and close the second homes loophole, whereby second homes are reclassified as businesses to avoid local taxation\ru003cbr>* Bring in an annual service charge cap for leaseholders, linked to the Consumer Price Index\ru003cbr>* Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments\ru003cbr>* Introduce a new Right to Buy scheme for social housing tenants, with all revenue directed towards building more quality social housing\ru003cbr>* Set compulsory targets for local authorities to bring long-term empty properties back into use\ru003cbr>* Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture\ru003cbr>* Guarantee that all military veterans who have seen active service will be prioritised for public housing and healthcare”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Upgrade Wales’ strategic road network to expressway standard, including a North-South National Expressway\ru003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen and Afon Wen to Bangor railway lines\ru003cbr>* A single ticketing system for public transport journeys”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Create a Welsh constitution and bill of rights. The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr>* The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr>* Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr>* The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr>* The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr>* Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr>* Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs”,”party_9″:”Communist Party of Great Britain”,”party_9_website”:”https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wales/”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Robert Griffiths”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Build 10,000 council homes a year”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* Applaud work of NHS staff during the pandemicu003cbr>* Nationalise pharmaceutical companiesu003cbr>* Invest in super-fast broadband to encourage more working from home”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Take failing compaines into ‘democratic public ownership’u003cbr>* Create a Welsh National Economic Development Authority with the power to direct investment of private capitalu003cbr>* Replace council tax with a local income tax”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* Abolish private educationu003cbr>* Create an alternative assessment system to replace the ‘exam factory’u003cbr>* Welsh-medium schools and nurseries available in every part of Wales”,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Create ‘primary health partnerships’ of GPs, councils, residents, housing associations, schools and health professionals to assess the long-term health needs of communitiesu003cbr>* A National Care Service with residential and nursing services free at the point of needu003cbr>* A standard employment contract for care workers”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Wales voted to leave the "capitalist big business" EU and Brexit means "new opportunities" for Wales”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Increased investment in renewable energy including tidal power and off-shore wind farmsu003cbr>* Support clean coal with carbon capture from deep miningu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear power "until it can be demonstrated a safe nuclear fusion option is available"”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Outlaw asset-stripping, mass redundancies and company "fire and rehire" schemesu003cbr>* Extend maternity and paternity leaveu003cbr>* Free childcare from birth for parents who want to return to work”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Build 10,000 council homes a yearu003cbr>* Higher tax on vacant landu003cbr>* All social housing brought back under local authority control”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Capped travel costs for young people”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Wealth tax to redistribute wealth across nations and regions of Britain”,”party_10″:”Gwlad”,”party_10_website”:”https://gwlad.org/en/”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Gwyn Wigley Evans”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currencyu003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newportu003cbr>* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* Proe young people in ‘working from home’ situations with options where they can find suitable workspaces together with appropriate support and mentoringu003cbr>* Fast-track planning applications for change of use that involve the conversion of commercial property to residential use”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* All publicly funded contracts should include provision for sustainable local content to ensure that money spent by the Welsh Government and local authorities is spent in Wales wherever possibleu003cbr>* Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure proers, educational institutions and funding bodies”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"u003cbr>* Humanities curriculum in schools to prioritise learning of Welsh history, traditions, culture and values u003cbr>* Student funding only given to students studying in Welsh institutions, other than for subjects not offered within Wales”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Smaller GP clinics combined into ‘polyclinics’, also proing outpatient services u003cbr>* Fee reductions for students studying medicine in Wales who undertake to work in Wales for a certain period of time on graduating”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* Keep open the option of a ‘re-join’ referendum if circumstances change u003cbr>* Seek to emulate New Zealand in expanding global trade”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Support investment in alternative technologies such as hydrogen technology as a way of storing, transporting and consuming energy generated by renewable methods u003cbr>* Not anti-nuclear in principle, but oppose large projects such as Wylfa Bu003cbr>* Take all water assets within Wales into public ownership and to place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit’ Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Welsh Revenue Authority takes responsibility for accurately accounting for all the taxation revenue generated within Wales u003cbr>* Post-independence – replace the current benefits and taxation system with Citizens’ Income and Flat Tax”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Require a licence for owning a second home, with the council charge surcharge set at 500% u003cbr>* Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property u003cbr>* A new Wales National Housing Agency”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* A 2/3 lane ‘Powys Spine Road’ along the A470 & A483 corridors u003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport u003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency u003cbr>* Referendum on whether to retain the monarchy u003cbr>* Single Transferrable Vote (STV) system to be used for elections”,”party_11″:”Wales Green Party”,”party_11_website”:”https://wales.greenparty.org.uk/”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Anthony Slaughter”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Green Transformation Fund to raise and direct money locally into communities to create 10k jobs in the green economy and homebuildingu003cbr>* Secure the future of the NHS by joining up health and social care, and investing in much better local health servicesu003cbr>* Fix the climate emergency, go carbon zero by 2030 and work to restore nature”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Ensure that Wales’ recovery from the pandemic is both fair and green\ru003cbr>* Establish a public inquiry into the Welsh government’s handling of the pandemic \ru003cbr>* Proe further protections against transmission in schools by introducing effective protections to make them safer”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Deliver a sustainable Wales with an ambitious Green New Deal that creates tens of thousands of new jobs \ru003cbr>* Ensure low rent and rates for existing small business, creative enterprises, and social and environmental start-ups to fill empty shops and bring back life to our high streets\ru003cbr>* Call for the immediate introduction of a Universal Basic Income that shares prosperity across society”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Stop the ongoing closure of small rural schoolsu003cbr>* Proe access to electronic devices for all children who need to learn from home, and access to structured programmes of work if they are unable to attend schoolu003cbr>* Widen access to higher and further education, ensuring that no fees are payable for initial degrees”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Safeguard the NHS as a free at the point of delivery, publicly-funded body\ru003cbr>* Ensuring that health boards and local authorities have the funding needed to increase capacity across all areas of health and social care provision\ru003cbr>* Ensure neighbourhood access to all treatments that can be made available locally\ru003cbr>* Provision of social support for disabled people, older people and their carers will be given early and quickly, enabling all to live fulfilled lives”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* Work to strengthen our bonds with our European neighbours and allies at every level, promoting future positive opportunities and tackling the damage caused to Wales by Brexitu003cbr>* Push for the UK government to seek ways to re-join the EU customs union as a matter of urgencyu003cbr>* Support efforts to re-join the Erasmus+ programme and work with all parties to maximise the educational and cultural opportunities available to our young people across Europe”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* Tackle the climate emergency by ensuring that carbon emission reduction targets are met at the scale and pace needed, as demanded by the science\ru003cbr>* Deliver a Green vision for net zero by 2030, replacing fossil fuels with onshore and offshore renewable energy and making necessary upgrades to the electricity grid\ru003cbr>* Appoint a new Welsh Government Commissioner for Biodiversity and Animal Protection to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Wales \ru003cbr>* Propose a bill to ban single-use plastic and legislation to progressively reduce all non-recyclable packaging waste, with a goal for an overall reduction on packaging”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Advocate for a four-day week to share work opportunities and respond to the greater automation and digitisation of manufacturing and servicesu003cbr>* Bring unions into local economy planning and proe workers with support for social and environmental business start-upsu003cbr>* Improve wages and working conditions for front-line workers, partly through UBI, but also through improved public service and care workers pay settlements, workers’ rights in collective bargaining, employment rights and health and safetyu003cbr>* End the ‘gig’ economy in Wales and exploitative zero-hours contracts through UBI and the extension of worker’s rights”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Build 12,000 new homes every year, built to the highest environmental and energy efficiency standards\ru003cbr>* Ensure sufficient, ongoing investment to enable the retrofitting of existing housing stock to the highest energy efficient standards, lifting thousands out of fuel poverty\ru003cbr>* Proe greater security for tenants by phasing out Assured Shorthold Tenancies in the private sector and proe those struggling with mortgage arrears with security of tenure through a ‘Right to Rent’ scheme”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Create better, affordable, cleaner transport options for all, including access to better walking, cycling and other active travel options and affordable public transportu003cbr>* Introduce a national transport strategy that responds to the climate emergency by reducing 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u003c/button>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”parties-list”>n u003cdiv class=”expander_container welsh_labour”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_1 name=”welsh_labour”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Welsh Labour party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/welsh_labour.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Welsh Labour u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Mark Drakeford u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Mark Drakeford icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/mark_drakeford.png” />n u003c/div>n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Main policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> A new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeshipsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limitu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Co-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” 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class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’reform_party_uk’ href=”https://reformparty.uk/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_5 name=”abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Richard Suchorzewski u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Richard Suchorzewski icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/richard_suchorzewski.png” />n u003c/div>n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Main policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Restore one NHS u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> End 1 million Welsh speakers target u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Co-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 81.77 80.79″>u003ctitle> Co-19 icon 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scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote" u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party’ href=”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container welsh_liberal_democrats”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_6 name=”welsh_liberal_democrats”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Welsh Liberal Democrats party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/welsh_liberal_democrats.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 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Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’welsh_liberal_democrats’ href=”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container ukip_wales”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_7 name=”ukip_wales”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”UKIP Wales party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/ukip_wales.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 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and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18 u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’ukip_wales’ href=”https://www.ukip.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container propel”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_8 name=”propel”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Propel party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/propel.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Propel u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” 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u003ch4> Work and benefits u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” data-name=”work & benefits” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 74.32 50.95″>u003ctitle> Work and benefits icon u003c/title>u003cg id=”w_b” data-name=”w b”>u003cg id=”Group_11912″ data-name=”Group 11912″>u003cpath id=”Path_63162″ data-name=”Path 63162″ 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The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’propel’ href=”https://www.propel.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container communist_party_of_great_britain”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_9 name=”communist_party_of_great_britain”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Communist Party of Great Britain party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/communist_party_of_great_britain.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Communist Party of Great Britain u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Robert Griffiths u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Robert Griffiths icon” 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the vaccine rollout across Wales with every adult offered both doses by the end of October, and delivery of any booster shotsu003cbr>* Establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems due to the pandemic, especially NHS staff, care workers and families who have experienced trauma due to patients being alone at the time of their deathu003cbr>* Review and open funding for businesses on a needs basis, ending the first come first serve nature of current support for Welsh businesses by the Welsh government”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Create a one-stop shop for businesses in Wales by bringing together the Development Bank of Wales, Business Wales and recreating the best aspects of the Welsh Development Agency * * * Establish Innovate Wales, based in north Wales, a one-stop shop for firms to support new enterprises, and encourage existing businesses to grow and exportu003cbr>* Deliver a tax cut for small businesses by scrapping business ratesu003cbr>* Introduce a comeback package for seaside and market towns to level up with a Tourism Towns Fund, enabling communities to improve their local economy by attracting new visitors with free WiFi or improved transport linksu003cbr>* Establish a National Mission to grow the Welsh economy, with a clear target to create 65,000 new jobs. Once achieved, we will cut the basic rate of income tax to support hardworking families”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* End the underfunding of our young people and guarantee that more funding directly reaches the classroomu003cbr>* Fully scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate to allow pupils to focus on GCSEs, A-levels and vocational coursesu003cbr>* Introduce different routes to excellence with the expansion of apprenticeships, including degree apprenticeships”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has further deteriorated during the pandemic, utilising cross-border and independent facilities to speed up treatmentu003cbr>* Ensure that no one should wait more than one year for treatment in the NHS with our Patient Guaranteeu003cbr>* Deliver 1,200 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and other professionals through our ‘Retain, recruit and train’ programmeu003cbr>* Transform mental health services by treating it with the same priority as physical health”,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Support businesses to access new opportunities following Brexit using our one-stop shop to access investmentu003cbr>* Work with schools and universities to ensure that the most disadvantaged in our society are able to access the new Turing Schemeu003cbr>* Ensure that the Welsh government, with the UK government, liaises closely with the Republic of Ireland to ensure smooth imports and exports”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Introduce a Clean Air Act to cut pollution and reduce the incidence of respiratory diseaseu003cbr>* Ban single-use plastics for non-medical use such as plastic wet wipes, straws, stirrers, disposable cups and cotton buds, as well as creating a drinks deposit return schemeu003cbr>* Tackle climate change by ensuring Wales meets our net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050″,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a single point of access for benefits and support scheme administered in Wales, exploring the possibility of automatically passporting Universal Credit claimants to thisu003cbr>* Introduce a ‘housing first’ model for supporting people who are homelessu003cbr>* Support our older communities by maintaining free prescriptions, free bus travel and promote free entry to Cadw sites and pilot free rail travel for the over 75s”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Encourage aspiration by scrapping Land Transaction Tax for first-time buyers and raising the threshold to £250,000u003cbr>* Restore a reformed right to buy so more people can benefit from the security of owning their own homeu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in north Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of west Walesu003cbr>* Create a fast-charging network of 20,000 electric car charging stationsu003cbr>* Help young people access education, training and employment with free bus travel and discounted rail travel for 16-24 year olds”,”party_2_issue_11″:”* No increase in the number of Members of the Senedd in the next five years and without support of the publicu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh government – it needs to get on and use the power it has rather than push for moreu003cbr>* Work together with the UK government – not against it – to level-up the whole of Wales”,”party_3″:”Plaid Cymru”,”party_3_website”:”https://www.partyof.wales/”,”party_3_colour”:””,”party_3_leader_1″:”Adam Price”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staffu003cbr>* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Hold an independence referendum by 2026″,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Build the best National Health and Care Service by reducing waiting lists, building new cancer diagnostic centres and raising the hourly wage of care workers to at least £10u003cbr>* Create a £6bn Green Economic Stimulus, which, together with investments in healthcare, education, and the local economy, will generate 60,000 jobs over the next Senedd year term u003cbr>* Prioritising educational and wellbeing recovery by recruiting 2,000 extra teachers and 2,000 extra support staff in schools across Wales”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Zero interest loans to support small businesses to bounce back post-Cou003cbr>* Create Prosperity Wales, a dynamic new economic development agency, dedicated to growing small and medium-sized Welsh firms, boosting exports and creating jobs in every community”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staff, reducing class sizes, and valuing the teaching professionu003cbr>* Establish world-class early years education and childcare, offering 30 hours a week, free for all children from 24 months to school ageu003cbr>* Reduce the maximum tuition fee chargeable to Welsh-domiciled students at Welsh universities to £7,500″,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Build a National Health and Care Service where personal care is free at the point of needu003cbr>* Proe 6,000 extra healthcare professionals for Wales – 4,000 nurses, 1,000 doctors and 1,000 allied health professionalsu003cbr>* Make improving mental health a central goal, and establish a network of Youth Wellbeing Centres for mental and physical health support for young people throughout Wales”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* Investigate ways for Wales to continue to participate in the EU Erasmus programmeu003cbr>* Develop a new export strategy for Welsh business, focused on EU regions and nations like Ireland and Basque Country where there are already established relationshipsu003cbr>* Start planning for an independent Wales to join the European Free Trade Association”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Set a Wales-wide mission to generate 100% of electricity and reach zero emissions by 2035u003cbr>* Introduce a Nature Act with statutory targets to restore biodiversity by 2050u003cbr>* Commit to proing good quality and safe green space within a five-minute walk of all Welsh households”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* £35 per child weekly top-up payment to families living below the poverty line u003cbr>* Proe a lifelong learning entitlement for retraining worth £5,000 for everyone over 25 u003cbr>* Pilot a Universal Basic Income in Wales”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Launch the most ambitious public homes programme since the 1970s, creating 50,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy over the next five years\ru003cbr>* Permanently end rough sleeping on our streets through a rapid re-housing policy\ru003cbr>* End no-fault evictions and create a new system of fair rents for people in private rental accommodation\ru003cbr>* Cut the bills of average Council Tax payers, and use planning and tax powers to tackle the second homes crisis”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Aim to halve the proportion of journeys made by car by 2030 \ru003cbr>* Allocate at least 50 per cent of all capital transport spend on improving bus and train services\ru003cbr>* Create a new west coast rail line, connecting the north and south\ru003cbr>* Build a Valleys CrossRail, linking east and west”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Give the people of Wales a say on their future by holding an independence referendum by 2026\ru003cbr>* Create a statutory National Commission to oversee the process leading to the referendum, including drafting a Welsh Constitution, involving widespread consultation\ru003cbr>* Seek the immediate devolution of power over currently reserved matters, including policing and criminal justice, rail, welfare, broadcasting, large energy projects, and the Crown Estate”,”party_4″:”Reform Party UK”,”party_4_website”:”https://reformparty.uk/”,”party_4_colour”:””,”party_4_leader_1″:”Nathan Gill”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* Ensure no more lockdowns u003cbr>* Clear the NHS backlog caused by Co u003cbr>* Give parents the right to take their children on holiday for up to ten days”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Never have a full scale lockdown for Wales or any part of Walesu003cbr>* Establish expert advisery group looking at wider impact of policy on health system and economyu003cbr>* Keep schools, leisure and fitness facilities openu003cbr>* Never introduce vaccine passports and remove guidance for wearing masks in class”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Free up 1.2m small businesses and self-employed from paying coporation taxu003cbr>* Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates in Walesu003cbr>* Stimulate the north Wales economy by supporting Wylfa Newydd”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Make financial education a mandatory subject for all school children at GCSE levelu003cbr>* Allow parents to have the flexibility to take children out of the classroom for up to 10 days for those not in their GCSE yearsu003cbr>* Reform term dates and scrap a six-week holiday July/August”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Invest to clear the backlog of NHS waiting times over the next four yearsu003cbr>* Invest in community services to ensure everyone gets the support they need on mental health and normalise mental illness with powerful health promotion campaignsu003cbr>* Develop a medical model that focuses on prevention, recovery and co-production as well as cureu003cbr>* Develop a workforce policy that ensures adequate numbers of high quality and motivated staff are kept and recruited”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Work with our EU partners as well as the Rest of the World to develop trade deals that benefit both parties”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technologyu003cbr>* Work with Local Authorities to create an Electric Vehicle charging network model that funds public servicesu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Maintain free prescriptionsu003cbr>* Oppose Wales introducing higher rates of income tax than other parts of the UKu003cbr>* Nationally would reduce the number of people paying income tax by increasing the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 per annum”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Keep the current legislation that allows local authorities to charge up to 100% extra on empty and second homes, but introduce a policy to ensure the money raised goes directly back to the communities affected u003cbr>* Introduce planning permission for home owners that wish to seek a change of purpose for that home to a holiday let businessu003cbr>* Make it easier for local people to build a home in their local village or town”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for six new train stations and Valley line upgradesu003cbr>* Improve transport links between South and North Walesu003cbr>* Invest in improving road links in North Wales”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* We will actively campaign to remain a firm member of the United Kingdomu003cbr>* Oppose any increase in the number of Senedd membersu003cbr>* Hold a seperate election for the first ministeru003cbr>* Seek to devolve some powers of Welsh government to councils”,”party_5″:”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”,”party_5_colour”:””,”party_5_leader_1″:”Richard Suchorzewski”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr>* Restore one NHS u003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* A UK-led response rather than a fragmented four nation approach”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.u003cbr>* Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local Enterprise Partnerships. u003cbr>* Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* Retain UK curriculumu003cbr>* Restore consistency of exams and grading with Englandu003cbr>* Devolve matter of whether Welsh should be compulsory in non-Welsh medium schools to councilsu003cbr>* Support academies and free schoolsu003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* Restore one unified National Health Serviceu003cbr>* Put doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in Englandu003cbr>* Keep free prescriptions for the less well off, children, pregnant women and retirees, but use money paid for prescriptions by others for tackling the huge waiting lists in NHS following the Co crisis”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* Support Brexit on the basis determined by UK government following the vote by Wales and aim to leave EU”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Abolish Natural Resources Walesu003cbr>* Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impactsu003cbr>* Prioritise support for traditional Welsh hill farming”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of UK to Wales”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* End devolution of Land Transaction Tax, replacing with UK Stamp Duty Land Taxu003cbr>* Restore right to buy”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Sell Cardiff Airportu003cbr>* Build the M4 Relief Road as supported by Public Inquiry and working with Newport city council supported by UK governmentu003cbr>* A more integrated UK-led rail system”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Hold a referendum on scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr>* Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote"”,”party_6″:”Welsh Liberal Democrats”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Jane Dodds”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* Freeze business rates for the next 5 years and create an investment relief fund to enable businesses to invest. u003cbr>* Work towards re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, as part of the scheduled renegotiation with the EU in 2025, or earlier should the opportunity arise”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Tackle holiday hunger by proing free school meals throughout the school holidays for the next 5 years and investing in Food and Fun programmes during school summer holidaysu003cbr>* Expand degree apprenticeships, including at postgraduate level, diversifying the subject areas available, and creating more routes into employmentu003cbr>* Personal Learning Accounts to realise a right to lifelong learning, allowing people to upskill and retrain”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Implement the new Curriculum for Wales and ensure it has the resources needed to make it a successu003cbr>* Improve opportunities for disadvantaged learners to learn over school holidays and ensure they get a good mealu003cbr>* End digital exclusion at all levels of education, investing in devices and digital skills”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it u003cbr>* Support our carers by paying all social care workers the Real Living Wageu003cbr>* Putting in place properly funded catch-up plans for our health and care services so health workers and patients have certainty about their care, for example cancer and stroke services”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Push for tariff free trade as part of the Single Market and Customs Unionu003cbr>* Promote and facilitate opportunities for international collaboration in research and educationu003cbr>* Ensure Wales does not lose a penny of investment through the new Shared Prosperity Fund”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Pass a Green Homes Act to create a new green standard for Welsh homes and cut average household bills by up to £500 per yearu003cbr>* Tackle pollution and clean up the air we breathe with a Clean Air Act in the first 100 days”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Take meaningful steps towards becoming a Living Wage and Living Hours nationu003cbr>* Deliver universal access to free childcare from the age of 9 months, including wrap-around care for children in schoolu003cbr>* Pilot a trial of Universal Basic Income in Wales to proe a minimum standard of living for everyone”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Build 30,000 new social homes for rent over the next 5 years to ensure everyone has access to a safe place to call homeu003cbr>* Introduce a plan to end homelessness and invest in services to help prevent people being pushed into homeless and help to maintain a homeu003cbr>* Continue to invest in the Rent to Own scheme that has helped people to own their own home for the first time”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Introduce free bus transport for every young person under the age of 25 by 2025u003cbr>* Invest in safe routes to walk and cycle, allocating 10% of the transport budget in this area, to reduce pollution and encourage healthier habitsu003cbr>* Make sure public transport works for everyone. Our Bus Bill will ensure that bus routes meet community needs, ticket fares are affordable and flexible, timetables meet different needs, and bus stops and train stations are accessible.”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Ensure decisions are made closest to the people they affect within a Federal UK based on mutual respect and trustu003cbr>* Devolve justice and policing, whilst abolishing Wales’ four Police and Crime Commissioners. Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr>* Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters”,”party_7″:”UKIP Wales”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.ukip.wales/”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_leader_1″:”Neil Hamilton”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* End lockdown measures immediately u003cbr>* A referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government u003cbr>* Scrap Welsh government’s ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ policy for asylum seekers and refugees”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* End lockdowns immediately, enabling all businesses to re-open, and indiual freedom and travel to returnu003cbr>* Immediately halt ‘Vaccine Passport’ proposals and reviews, which seek to make vaccination mandatory under the threat of marginalisation from societyu003cbr>* Restore civil liberties, such as freedom of travel, freedom of association and freedom to attend events that have been taken away from us during the pandemic”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* Cut alcohol prices to reinvigorate the vital Welsh hospitality sector by cutting VAT on alcohol served in licensed premises. u003cbr>* Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by proing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest housesu003cbr>* Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh free ports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate and make the teaching of Welsh optional through the whole curriculum u003cbr>* Dismantle the four schools improvement consortia in Wales and redirect their annual £150m budget directly to schoolsu003cbr>* Scrap tuition fees for students studying degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at university proed that, after graduation, they stay in the UK and work in those fields during part of their student loan repayment periodu003cbr>* Put power back into the hands of parents by restoring and respecting their right to remove their children from relationship and sex education lessons and remove such lessons from primary schools altogether”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Introduce locally elected health boards, putting patients and families at the heart of NHS decision-makingu003cbr>* Dramatically increase the number of training places for British doctors, nurses and paramedics and ensure that the required number of nurses and doctors are trained in Wales and the UK rather than imported from abroad.u003cbr>* Reunite families with loved ones in care homes without delayu003cbr>* Ensure that those who have paid sufficient tax and NI will not be forced to use their savings and home to pay for social care”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Build on the untapped potential of the fishing industry in Wales by campaigning to take back full control of our watersu003cbr>* Deport bogus asylum seekers who currently cannot currently be removed as a result of loopholes in the European Convention on Human Rightsu003cbr>* Defend the togetherness and integrity of the United Kingdom by ditching the border in the Irish Sea and the damaging Northern Ireland Protocol”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Lobby the UK Government to scrap the Climate Change Act (2008)u003cbr>* Scrap all subsidies for so-called "green" energy projects which transfer money from taxpayers, including the poorest in society, to already rich environmental chancersu003cbr>* Champion the growth of British farming, fishing, food safety and animal welfare standardsu003cbr>* Push ahead with a post-Brexit ban of live animal exports for slaughter”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* Seek to minimise the use of zero-hour contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wageu003cbr>* Oppose the devolution of any further benefits to the Welsh Parliament. u003cbr>* Free prescriptions, Council Tax and Discretionary (Social) assistance benefits will remain under UKIPu003cbr>* End job discrimination and ensure applicants obtain roles based on merit, not on their ability to speak Welsh”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* Bring housing demand under control by implementing firm and fair immigration controlu003cbr>* Give local people a greater say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding local referendau003cbr>* Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Support the building of the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Sell Cardiff airport immediately to mitigate any further loss to Welsh taxpayers, so that a new owner can operate it on a proper commercial basisu003cbr>* Re-open train stations and railway lines to improve connectivity across Wales, where appropriate, by reviewing the Beeching cuts”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* Deliver a long overdue referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government at the earliest opportunityu003cbr>* Campaign to scrap the Senedd and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr>* Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr>* Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18″,”party_8″:”Propel”,”party_8_website”:”https://www.propel.wales/”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Neil McEvoy”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Formally end all lockdowns, committing not to return to them and to repeal ‘draconian’ policing powersu003cbr>* Establish a Welsh national energy company to extract gas reserves in former coal fields to replace use of imported gas.u003cbr>* A Modern Democracy Act to create a Welsh constitution and a bill of rights – giving the public the right to call national and local referendums”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Establish an independent and transparent enquiry into the Welsh government’s response to the coronavirus pandemicu003cbr>* Introduce a Coronavirus Recovery Act to end all lockdowns in Wales, repeal all "draconian" policing powers, tackle coronavirus through social distancing measures and shielding the vulnerable, reclassify gyms as essential services and will stay open, as will schools, and a policy of full transparency of all data and decisions takenu003cbr>* Renegotiate the furlough scheme to pay people impacted by Co restrictions to work safely, while continuing to support shielding of the vulnerable”,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Establish a Stock Exchange Cymru for listing Welsh companies who wish to publicly trade company shares\ru003cbr>* Create a Welsh Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop a long-term, sustainable portfolio of investments, under the Santiago Principles\ru003cbr>* Create eight co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses\ru003cbr>* Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export\ru003cbr>* Develop a new public procurement strategy to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Schools will stay open and will not be locked down\ru003cbr>* Pass a new Welsh Medium Education Act to bring together all existing legislative strands to proe unambiguous legal clarity in the future”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* Implement Robbie’s Law to make a duty of candour legally binding on medical practitioners and across the public sector, meaning they must be truthful in the event of mistakes or negligence\ru003cbr>* Establish independent, non-party political and elected Public Services Investigators (PSI) to investigate complaints about public services in Wales\ru003cbr>* Launch an independent audit of Welsh Government waste, fraud or corruption. Savings made will be redirected to the NHS.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Respect the results of the EU referendum, in which a majority of Welsh people voted to leave the European Union”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Establish a Welsh national energy company, majority owned by the Welsh Government and local authorities, for conventional extraction of Wales’ known gas reserves to replace use of imported gasu003cbr>* Cheaper energy supply will be used to support local employment in our key strategic industries, including steel and manufacturingu003cbr>* Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund with the revenue generated to achieve long-term energy independence through investment in renewable energyu003cbr>* Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technologyu003cbr>* Reject the building of any nuclear reactors and veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* A new public procurement strategy will be adopted to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* A ‘housing first’ policy to end Welsh homelessness and close the second homes loophole, whereby second homes are reclassified as businesses to avoid local taxation\ru003cbr>* Bring in an annual service charge cap for leaseholders, linked to the Consumer Price Index\ru003cbr>* Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments\ru003cbr>* Introduce a new Right to Buy scheme for social housing tenants, with all revenue directed towards building more quality social housing\ru003cbr>* Set compulsory targets for local authorities to bring long-term empty properties back into use\ru003cbr>* Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture\ru003cbr>* Guarantee that all military veterans who have seen active service will be prioritised for public housing and healthcare”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Upgrade Wales’ strategic road network to expressway standard, including a North-South National Expressway\ru003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen and Afon Wen to Bangor railway lines\ru003cbr>* A single ticketing system for public transport journeys”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Create a Welsh constitution and bill of rights. The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr>* The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr>* Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr>* The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr>* The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr>* Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr>* Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs”,”party_9″:”Communist Party of Great Britain”,”party_9_website”:”https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wales/”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Robert Griffiths”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Build 10,000 council homes a year”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* Applaud work of NHS staff during the pandemicu003cbr>* Nationalise pharmaceutical companiesu003cbr>* Invest in super-fast broadband to encourage more working from home”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Take failing compaines into ‘democratic public ownership’u003cbr>* Create a Welsh National Economic Development Authority with the power to direct investment of private capitalu003cbr>* Replace council tax with a local income tax”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* Abolish private educationu003cbr>* Create an alternative assessment system to replace the ‘exam factory’u003cbr>* Welsh-medium schools and nurseries available in every part of Wales”,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Create ‘primary health partnerships’ of GPs, councils, residents, housing associations, schools and health professionals to assess the long-term health needs of communitiesu003cbr>* A National Care Service with residential and nursing services free at the point of needu003cbr>* A standard employment contract for care workers”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Wales voted to leave the "capitalist big business" EU and Brexit means "new opportunities" for Wales”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Increased investment in renewable energy including tidal power and off-shore wind farmsu003cbr>* Support clean coal with carbon capture from deep miningu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear power "until it can be demonstrated a safe nuclear fusion option is available"”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Outlaw asset-stripping, mass redundancies and company "fire and rehire" schemesu003cbr>* Extend maternity and paternity leaveu003cbr>* Free childcare from birth for parents who want to return to work”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Build 10,000 council homes a yearu003cbr>* Higher tax on vacant landu003cbr>* All social housing brought back under local authority control”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Capped travel costs for young people”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Wealth tax to redistribute wealth across nations and regions of Britain”,”party_10″:”Gwlad”,”party_10_website”:”https://gwlad.org/en/”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Gwyn Wigley Evans”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currencyu003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newportu003cbr>* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* Proe young people in ‘working from home’ situations with options where they can find suitable workspaces together with appropriate support and mentoringu003cbr>* Fast-track planning applications for change of use that involve the conversion of commercial property to residential use”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* All publicly funded contracts should include provision for sustainable local content to ensure that money spent by the Welsh Government and local authorities is spent in Wales wherever possibleu003cbr>* Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure proers, educational institutions and funding bodies”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"u003cbr>* Humanities curriculum in schools to prioritise learning of Welsh history, traditions, culture and values u003cbr>* Student funding only given to students studying in Welsh institutions, other than for subjects not offered within Wales”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Smaller GP clinics combined into ‘polyclinics’, also proing outpatient services u003cbr>* Fee reductions for students studying medicine in Wales who undertake to work in Wales for a certain period of time on graduating”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* Keep open the option of a ‘re-join’ referendum if circumstances change u003cbr>* Seek to emulate New Zealand in expanding global trade”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Support investment in alternative technologies such as hydrogen technology as a way of storing, transporting and consuming energy generated by renewable methods u003cbr>* Not anti-nuclear in principle, but oppose large projects such as Wylfa Bu003cbr>* Take all water assets within Wales into public ownership and to place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit’ Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Welsh Revenue Authority takes responsibility for accurately accounting for all the taxation revenue generated within Wales u003cbr>* Post-independence – replace the current benefits and taxation system with Citizens’ Income and Flat Tax”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Require a licence for owning a second home, with the council charge surcharge set at 500% u003cbr>* Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property u003cbr>* A new Wales National Housing Agency”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* A 2/3 lane ‘Powys Spine Road’ along the A470 & A483 corridors u003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport u003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency u003cbr>* Referendum on whether to retain the monarchy u003cbr>* Single Transferrable Vote (STV) system to be used for elections”,”party_11″:”Wales Green Party”,”party_11_website”:”https://wales.greenparty.org.uk/”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Anthony Slaughter”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Green Transformation Fund to raise and direct money locally into communities to create 10k jobs in the green economy and homebuildingu003cbr>* Secure the future of the NHS by joining up health and social care, and investing in much better local health servicesu003cbr>* Fix the climate emergency, go carbon zero by 2030 and work to restore nature”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Ensure that Wales’ recovery from the pandemic is both fair and green\ru003cbr>* Establish a public inquiry into the Welsh government’s handling of the pandemic \ru003cbr>* Proe further protections against transmission in schools by introducing effective protections to make them safer”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Deliver a sustainable Wales with an ambitious Green New Deal that creates tens of thousands of new jobs \ru003cbr>* Ensure low rent and rates for existing small business, creative enterprises, and social and environmental start-ups to fill empty shops and bring back life to our high streets\ru003cbr>* Call for the immediate introduction of a Universal Basic Income that shares prosperity across society”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Stop the ongoing closure of small rural schoolsu003cbr>* Proe access to electronic devices for all children who need to learn from home, and access to structured programmes of work if they are unable to attend schoolu003cbr>* Widen access to higher and further education, ensuring that no fees are payable for initial degrees”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Safeguard the NHS as a free at the point of delivery, publicly-funded body\ru003cbr>* Ensuring that health boards and local authorities have the funding needed to increase capacity across all areas of health and social care provision\ru003cbr>* Ensure neighbourhood access to all treatments that can be made available locally\ru003cbr>* Provision of social support for disabled people, older people and their carers will be given early and quickly, enabling all to live fulfilled lives”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* Work to strengthen our bonds with our European neighbours and allies at every level, promoting future positive opportunities and tackling the damage caused to Wales by Brexitu003cbr>* Push for the UK government to seek ways to re-join the EU customs union as a matter of urgencyu003cbr>* Support efforts to re-join the Erasmus+ programme and work with all parties to maximise the educational and cultural opportunities available to our young people across Europe”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* Tackle the climate emergency by ensuring that carbon emission reduction targets are met at the scale and pace needed, as demanded by the science\ru003cbr>* Deliver a Green vision for net zero by 2030, replacing fossil fuels with onshore and offshore renewable energy and making necessary upgrades to the electricity grid\ru003cbr>* Appoint a new Welsh Government Commissioner for Biodiversity and Animal Protection to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Wales \ru003cbr>* Propose a bill to ban single-use plastic and legislation to progressively reduce all non-recyclable packaging waste, with a goal for an overall reduction on packaging”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Advocate for a four-day week to share work opportunities and respond to the greater automation and digitisation of manufacturing and servicesu003cbr>* Bring unions into local economy planning and proe workers with support for social and environmental business start-upsu003cbr>* Improve wages and working conditions for front-line workers, partly through UBI, but also through improved public service and care workers pay settlements, workers’ rights in collective bargaining, employment rights and health and safetyu003cbr>* End the ‘gig’ economy in Wales and exploitative zero-hours contracts through UBI and the extension of worker’s rights”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Build 12,000 new homes every year, built to the highest environmental and energy efficiency standards\ru003cbr>* Ensure sufficient, ongoing investment to enable the retrofitting of existing housing stock to the highest energy efficient standards, lifting thousands out of fuel poverty\ru003cbr>* Proe greater security for tenants by phasing out Assured Shorthold Tenancies in the private sector and proe those struggling with mortgage arrears with security of tenure through a ‘Right to Rent’ scheme”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Create better, affordable, cleaner transport options for all, including access to better walking, cycling and other active travel options and affordable public transportu003cbr>* Introduce a national transport strategy that responds to the climate emergency by reducing traffic and carbon emissions, while improving health, wellbeing and air quality u003cbr>* Introduce free public transport for local journeys for those aged under 21 to engender the use of public transportu003cbr>* Resist any attempts to reopen the proposals for the cancelled M4 relief road”,”party_11_issue_11″:”* Support the aspiration for an independent and fully democratic Wales, bringing decision making to those people most affected by those decisionsu003cbr>* Campaign for Wales to secede from the United Kingdom in any future referendumu003cbr>* Strengthen local democracy by increasing citizen engagement through citizen’s juries, people’s assemblies, and similar bodies”},”englishVocab”:{“choose_issue”:”What are the parties promising you?”,”choose_issue_sub”:”Select an issue and a party to see their policies”,”expand_all”:”Expand all”,”collapse_all”:”Collapse all”,”leader_heading”:”Leader”,”leader_heading_plural”:”Leaders”,”pledges_heading”:”Main policies”,”change_issue”:”Change issue”,”devolved_message”:”This issue is u003cb> devolved or partly devolved u003c/b>”,”devolved_link”:”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54974078″,”devolved_link_message”:”Find out what this means for you”,”party_website_message”:”See party website”,”icon_alt_text”:”icon”,”issue_1″:”Top priorities”,”issue_1_title”:”Main policies”,”issue_1_subtitle”:””,”issue_1_description”:””,”issue_1_devolved”:”0″,”issue_1_link”:””,”issue_1_link_message”:”Find out more about top priorities here”,”issue_2″:”Co-19″,”issue_2_title”:”Co-19″,”issue_2_subtitle”:””,”issue_2_description”:”Including future containment measures and the rollout of vaccines.”,”issue_2_devolved”:”0″,”issue_2_link”:””,”issue_2_link_message”:””,”issue_3″:”Economy”,”issue_3_title”:”Economy”,”issue_3_subtitle”:””,”issue_3_description”:”Covering infrastructure investment, business taxes, and support for 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energy, plastic use, recycling, energy efficiency and air pollution.”,”issue_7_devolved”:”0″,”issue_7_link”:””,”issue_7_link_message”:””,”issue_8″:”Work and benefits”,”issue_8_title”:”Work and benefits”,”issue_8_subtitle”:””,”issue_8_description”:”Including childcare, tackling poverty and council tax benefit.”,”issue_8_devolved”:”0″,”issue_8_link”:””,”issue_8_link_message”:””,”issue_9″:”Housing”,”issue_9_title”:”Housing”,”issue_9_subtitle”:””,”issue_9_description”:”Including house building, home ownership, social housing, homelessness and tenants rights.”,”issue_9_devolved”:”0″,”issue_9_link”:””,”issue_9_link_message”:””,”issue_10″:”Transport”,”issue_10_title”:”Transport”,”issue_10_subtitle”:””,”issue_10_description”:”Covering rail ownership and franchising, bus services, and road upgrades.”,”issue_10_devolved”:”0″,”issue_10_link”:””,”issue_10_link_message”:””,”issue_11″:”Democracy”,”issue_11_title”:”Democracy”,”issue_11_subtitle”:””,”issue_11_description”:”Including the future of devolution in Wales.”,”issue_11_devolved”:”0″,”issue_11_link”:””,”issue_11_link_message”:””,”party_1″:”Welsh Labour”,”party_1_website”:”https://www.welshlabour.wales/”,”party_1_colour”:””,”party_1_leader_1″:”Mark Drakeford”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* A new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeshipsu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limitu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trains”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Continue to work with NHS staff, armed forces and volunteers to get people vaccinatedu003cbr>* Further support Welsh workers and businesses with what it says is the most generous financial support in the UKu003cbr>* Launch programme of catch-up support for public services, including employing over 1,800 additional tutoring staff in schools and a new medical school in North Wales”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Continue business rates holiday for retail, leisure and hospitality businesses for a further 12 months, in combination with the Small Business Rates Relief scheme will mean more than 70,000 businesses will pay no rates at all in 2021-22u003cbr>* Establish a new Young Persons’ Guarantee of a place in work, education, training or self-employment for everyone in Wales under the age of 25, including creating 125,000 new apprenticeships”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* New curriculum for Wales starting in 2022, focusing on higher standards of literacy and numeracy, ensuring our young people are more digitally and bilingually competent, and supporting pupils’ mental and emotional healthu003cbr>* Continue to protect the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Support for families to cover uniform and school equipment costs, and guaranteed free school meals through the holidays during the pandemic”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Free prescriptions and free hospital car parking will remain protectedu003cbr>* Guarantee the Real Living Wage for all social care staff and keep the cap on non-residential care fees and maintain the £50,000 capital limit”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Stress the importance of our economic, political and social links with the EU allowing businesses to trade Welsh goods across Europeu003cbr>* Continue with the implementation of the International Strategy which seeks to raise Wales’ profile, grow the economy and establish Wales as a globally responsible nation”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Create jobs across Wales with green energy, environmental protections and tourismu003cbr>* Abolish the use of the most littered single-use plastics, protecting the seas and countrysideu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales, for the benefits of equality and mental health as well as the environment”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Put the social partnership approach into law, and make Wales a genuinely Fair Work Nation\ru003cbr>* Continue to push the UK government to support Welsh families in areas it is responsible for and withdraw planned cuts to Universal Credit”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Build thousands of new low-carbon, affordable homes for rent and with it, create thousands of new jobs”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Deliver high-quality, sustainable public transport system for Walesu003cbr>* Keep the Wales and the Borders rail franchise in public ownershipu003cbr>* Invest £800m in new trains to ensure that by 2023, 95% of journeys on our rail network will be on new trainsu003cbr>* Re-regulate the bus network, meaning easier access to local bus servicesu003cbr>* Invest in communities and infrastructure to help ensure more and more journeys are taken by foot or by bike”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Believe that the United Kingdom is a voluntary association of four nations, where power should be dispersed and not centralised, and where as much as possible decisions are made as close to people as they can be takenu003cbr>* Support a constitutional convention to develop a new settlement for the United Kingdom”,”party_2″:”Welsh Conservative Party”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.conservatives.wales/”,”party_2_colour”:””,”party_2_leader_1″:”Andrew RT Davies”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in North Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of West Walesu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh Governmentu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_2″:”* Appoint a dedicated Co-19 Recovery Minister in the Welsh government to oversee all areas of coronavirus recovery, including the vaccine rollout across Wales with every adult offered both doses by the end of October, and delivery of any booster shotsu003cbr>* Establish routes to support for people suffering with mental health problems due to the pandemic, especially NHS staff, care workers and families who have experienced trauma due to patients being alone at the time of their deathu003cbr>* Review and open funding for businesses on a needs basis, ending the first come first serve nature of current support for Welsh businesses by the Welsh government”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Create a one-stop shop for businesses in Wales by bringing together the Development Bank of Wales, Business Wales and recreating the best aspects of the Welsh Development Agency * * * Establish Innovate Wales, based in north Wales, a one-stop shop for firms to support new enterprises, and encourage existing businesses to grow and exportu003cbr>* Deliver a tax cut for small businesses by scrapping business ratesu003cbr>* Introduce a comeback package for seaside and market towns to level up with a Tourism Towns Fund, enabling communities to improve their local economy by attracting new visitors with free WiFi or improved transport linksu003cbr>* Establish a National Mission to grow the Welsh economy, with a clear target to create 65,000 new jobs. Once achieved, we will cut the basic rate of income tax to support hardworking families”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* End the underfunding of our young people and guarantee that more funding directly reaches the classroomu003cbr>* Fully scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate to allow pupils to focus on GCSEs, A-levels and vocational coursesu003cbr>* Introduce different routes to excellence with the expansion of apprenticeships, including degree apprenticeships”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Develop a clear plan to enable the Welsh NHS to clear the waiting list backlog that has further deteriorated during the pandemic, utilising cross-border and independent facilities to speed up treatmentu003cbr>* Ensure that no one should wait more than one year for treatment in the NHS with our Patient Guaranteeu003cbr>* Deliver 1,200 more doctors, 3,000 more nurses and other professionals through our ‘Retain, recruit and train’ programmeu003cbr>* Transform mental health services by treating it with the same priority as physical health”,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Support businesses to access new opportunities following Brexit using our one-stop shop to access investmentu003cbr>* Work with schools and universities to ensure that the most disadvantaged in our society are able to access the new Turing Schemeu003cbr>* Ensure that the Welsh government, with the UK government, liaises closely with the Republic of Ireland to ensure smooth imports and exports”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Introduce a Clean Air Act to cut pollution and reduce the incidence of respiratory diseaseu003cbr>* Ban single-use plastics for non-medical use such as plastic wet wipes, straws, stirrers, disposable cups and cotton buds, as well as creating a drinks deposit return schemeu003cbr>* Tackle climate change by ensuring Wales meets our net-zero carbon emissions target by 2050″,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a single point of access for benefits and support scheme administered in Wales, exploring the possibility of automatically passporting Universal Credit claimants to thisu003cbr>* Introduce a ‘housing first’ model for supporting people who are homelessu003cbr>* Support our older communities by maintaining free prescriptions, free bus travel and promote free entry to Cadw sites and pilot free rail travel for the over 75s”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Encourage aspiration by scrapping Land Transaction Tax for first-time buyers and raising the threshold to £250,000u003cbr>* Restore a reformed right to buy so more people can benefit from the security of owning their own homeu003cbr>* Build 100,000 houses over the next decade, including 40,000 social homes, with all new homes carbon neutral by 2026″,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 Relief Road, upgrade the A55 in north Wales to reduce pinch points and the A40 to boost the economy of west Walesu003cbr>* Create a fast-charging network of 20,000 electric car charging stationsu003cbr>* Help young people access education, training and employment with free bus travel and discounted rail travel for 16-24 year olds”,”party_2_issue_11″:”* No increase in the number of Members of the Senedd in the next five years and without support of the publicu003cbr>* No new powers for the Welsh government – it needs to get on and use the power it has rather than push for moreu003cbr>* Work together with the UK government – not against it – to level-up the whole of Wales”,”party_3″:”Plaid Cymru”,”party_3_website”:”https://www.partyof.wales/”,”party_3_colour”:””,”party_3_leader_1″:”Adam Price”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staffu003cbr>* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Hold an independence referendum by 2026″,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Build the best National Health and Care Service by reducing waiting lists, building new cancer diagnostic centres and raising the hourly wage of care workers to at least £10u003cbr>* Create a £6bn Green Economic Stimulus, which, together with investments in healthcare, education, and the local economy, will generate 60,000 jobs over the next Senedd year term u003cbr>* Prioritising educational and wellbeing recovery by recruiting 2,000 extra teachers and 2,000 extra support staff in schools across Wales”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* A guaranteed job, on at least a Real Living Wage, or high-quality training for every 16–24-year-oldu003cbr>* Zero interest loans to support small businesses to bounce back post-Cou003cbr>* Create Prosperity Wales, a dynamic new economic development agency, dedicated to growing small and medium-sized Welsh firms, boosting exports and creating jobs in every community”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Investing in 4,500 extra teachers and support staff, reducing class sizes, and valuing the teaching professionu003cbr>* Establish world-class early years education and childcare, offering 30 hours a week, free for all children from 24 months to school ageu003cbr>* Reduce the maximum tuition fee chargeable to Welsh-domiciled students at Welsh universities to £7,500″,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Build a National Health and Care Service where personal care is free at the point of needu003cbr>* Proe 6,000 extra healthcare professionals for Wales – 4,000 nurses, 1,000 doctors and 1,000 allied health professionalsu003cbr>* Make improving mental health a central goal, and establish a network of Youth Wellbeing Centres for mental and physical health support for young people throughout Wales”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* Investigate ways for Wales to continue to participate in the EU Erasmus programmeu003cbr>* Develop a new export strategy for Welsh business, focused on EU regions and nations like Ireland and Basque Country where there are already established relationshipsu003cbr>* Start planning for an independent Wales to join the European Free Trade Association”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Set a Wales-wide mission to generate 100% of electricity and reach zero emissions by 2035u003cbr>* Introduce a Nature Act with statutory targets to restore biodiversity by 2050u003cbr>* Commit to proing good quality and safe green space within a five-minute walk of all Welsh households”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* £35 per child weekly top-up payment to families living below the poverty line u003cbr>* Proe a lifelong learning entitlement for retraining worth £5,000 for everyone over 25 u003cbr>* Pilot a Universal Basic Income in Wales”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Launch the most ambitious public homes programme since the 1970s, creating 50,000 genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy over the next five years\ru003cbr>* Permanently end rough sleeping on our streets through a rapid re-housing policy\ru003cbr>* End no-fault evictions and create a new system of fair rents for people in private rental accommodation\ru003cbr>* Cut the bills of average Council Tax payers, and use planning and tax powers to tackle the second homes crisis”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Aim to halve the proportion of journeys made by car by 2030 \ru003cbr>* Allocate at least 50 per cent of all capital transport spend on improving bus and train services\ru003cbr>* Create a new west coast rail line, connecting the north and south\ru003cbr>* Build a Valleys CrossRail, linking east and west”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Give the people of Wales a say on their future by holding an independence referendum by 2026\ru003cbr>* Create a statutory National Commission to oversee the process leading to the referendum, including drafting a Welsh Constitution, involving widespread consultation\ru003cbr>* Seek the immediate devolution of power over currently reserved matters, including policing and criminal justice, rail, welfare, broadcasting, large energy projects, and the Crown Estate”,”party_4″:”Reform Party UK”,”party_4_website”:”https://reformparty.uk/”,”party_4_colour”:””,”party_4_leader_1″:”Nathan Gill”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* Ensure no more lockdowns u003cbr>* Clear the NHS backlog caused by Co u003cbr>* Give parents the right to take their children on holiday for up to ten days”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Never have a full scale lockdown for Wales or any part of Walesu003cbr>* Establish expert advisery group looking at wider impact of policy on health system and economyu003cbr>* Keep schools, leisure and fitness facilities openu003cbr>* Never introduce vaccine passports and remove guidance for wearing masks in class”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Free up 1.2m small businesses and self-employed from paying coporation taxu003cbr>* Create an internet sales tax and scrap business rates in Walesu003cbr>* Stimulate the north Wales economy by supporting Wylfa Newydd”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Make financial education a mandatory subject for all school children at GCSE levelu003cbr>* Allow parents to have the flexibility to take children out of the classroom for up to 10 days for those not in their GCSE yearsu003cbr>* Reform term dates and scrap a six-week holiday July/August”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Invest to clear the backlog of NHS waiting times over the next four yearsu003cbr>* Invest in community services to ensure everyone gets the support they need on mental health and normalise mental illness with powerful health promotion campaignsu003cbr>* Develop a medical model that focuses on prevention, recovery and co-production as well as cureu003cbr>* Develop a workforce policy that ensures adequate numbers of high quality and motivated staff are kept and recruited”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Work with our EU partners as well as the Rest of the World to develop trade deals that benefit both parties”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Support and invest in tidal energy to make Wales a world leader in this technologyu003cbr>* Work with Local Authorities to create an Electric Vehicle charging network model that funds public servicesu003cbr>* Create a National Forest for Wales with open access to all citizens”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Maintain free prescriptionsu003cbr>* Oppose Wales introducing higher rates of income tax than other parts of the UKu003cbr>* Nationally would reduce the number of people paying income tax by increasing the minimum threshold to £20,000, from £12,500 per annum”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Keep the current legislation that allows local authorities to charge up to 100% extra on empty and second homes, but introduce a policy to ensure the money raised goes directly back to the communities affected u003cbr>* Introduce planning permission for home owners that wish to seek a change of purpose for that home to a holiday let businessu003cbr>* Make it easier for local people to build a home in their local village or town”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Build the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Build new rail infrastructure in South Wales, including SE Wales Transport Commission recommendation for six new train stations and Valley line upgradesu003cbr>* Improve transport links between South and North Walesu003cbr>* Invest in improving road links in North Wales”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* We will actively campaign to remain a firm member of the United Kingdomu003cbr>* Oppose any increase in the number of Senedd membersu003cbr>* Hold a seperate election for the first ministeru003cbr>* Seek to devolve some powers of Welsh government to councils”,”party_5″:”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”,”party_5_colour”:””,”party_5_leader_1″:”Richard Suchorzewski”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr>* Restore one NHS u003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* A UK-led response rather than a fragmented four nation approach”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Powers over economic development should be devolved from Cardiff Bay to local area across Wales in Local enterprise partnerships.u003cbr>* Councils should then work in partnership with business and employers, who know their areas, in Local Enterprise Partnerships. u003cbr>* Lower council tax could help poor areas more than third sector grants”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* Retain UK curriculumu003cbr>* Restore consistency of exams and grading with Englandu003cbr>* Devolve matter of whether Welsh should be compulsory in non-Welsh medium schools to councilsu003cbr>* Support academies and free schoolsu003cbr>* End 1 million Welsh speakers target”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* Restore one unified National Health Serviceu003cbr>* Put doctors on same pay scales as counterparts in Englandu003cbr>* Keep free prescriptions for the less well off, children, pregnant women and retirees, but use money paid for prescriptions by others for tackling the huge waiting lists in NHS following the Co crisis”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* Support Brexit on the basis determined by UK government following the vote by Wales and aim to leave EU”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Abolish Natural Resources Walesu003cbr>* Support transition to new technologies in agriculture that could reduce adverse environmental impactsu003cbr>* Prioritise support for traditional Welsh hill farming”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Oppose the devolution of benefit administration to avoid putting at risk the circa 15% of GDP fiscal transfer from rest of UK to Wales”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* End devolution of Land Transaction Tax, replacing with UK Stamp Duty Land Taxu003cbr>* Restore right to buy”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Sell Cardiff Airportu003cbr>* Build the M4 Relief Road as supported by Public Inquiry and working with Newport city council supported by UK governmentu003cbr>* A more integrated UK-led rail system”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Hold a referendum on scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr>* Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote"”,”party_6″:”Welsh Liberal Democrats”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Jane Dodds”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* £500m to help our high streets, town and city centres, and support small businesses to thrive and adaptu003cbr>* Freeze business rates for the next 5 years and create an investment relief fund to enable businesses to invest. u003cbr>* Work towards re-joining the Single Market and Customs Union, as part of the scheduled renegotiation with the EU in 2025, or earlier should the opportunity arise”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Tackle holiday hunger by proing free school meals throughout the school holidays for the next 5 years and investing in Food and Fun programmes during school summer holidaysu003cbr>* Expand degree apprenticeships, including at postgraduate level, diversifying the subject areas available, and creating more routes into employmentu003cbr>* Personal Learning Accounts to realise a right to lifelong learning, allowing people to upskill and retrain”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Implement the new Curriculum for Wales and ensure it has the resources needed to make it a successu003cbr>* Improve opportunities for disadvantaged learners to learn over school holidays and ensure they get a good mealu003cbr>* End digital exclusion at all levels of education, investing in devices and digital skills”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Create a 24/7 crisis mental health service to ensure that people can recieve care when they need it u003cbr>* Support our carers by paying all social care workers the Real Living Wageu003cbr>* Putting in place properly funded catch-up plans for our health and care services so health workers and patients have certainty about their care, for example cancer and stroke services”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Push for tariff free trade as part of the Single Market and Customs Unionu003cbr>* Promote and facilitate opportunities for international collaboration in research and educationu003cbr>* Ensure Wales does not lose a penny of investment through the new Shared Prosperity Fund”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* An investment of £1bn per year to fight the climate emergency, create new green jobs, and cut household energy billsu003cbr>* Pass a Green Homes Act to create a new green standard for Welsh homes and cut average household bills by up to £500 per yearu003cbr>* Tackle pollution and clean up the air we breathe with a Clean Air Act in the first 100 days”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Take meaningful steps towards becoming a Living Wage and Living Hours nationu003cbr>* Deliver universal access to free childcare from the age of 9 months, including wrap-around care for children in schoolu003cbr>* Pilot a trial of Universal Basic Income in Wales to proe a minimum standard of living for everyone”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Build 30,000 new social homes for rent over the next 5 years to ensure everyone has access to a safe place to call homeu003cbr>* Introduce a plan to end homelessness and invest in services to help prevent people being pushed into homeless and help to maintain a homeu003cbr>* Continue to invest in the Rent to Own scheme that has helped people to own their own home for the first time”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Introduce free bus transport for every young person under the age of 25 by 2025u003cbr>* Invest in safe routes to walk and cycle, allocating 10% of the transport budget in this area, to reduce pollution and encourage healthier habitsu003cbr>* Make sure public transport works for everyone. Our Bus Bill will ensure that bus routes meet community needs, ticket fares are affordable and flexible, timetables meet different needs, and bus stops and train stations are accessible.”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Ensure decisions are made closest to the people they affect within a Federal UK based on mutual respect and trustu003cbr>* Devolve justice and policing, whilst abolishing Wales’ four Police and Crime Commissioners. Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr>* Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters”,”party_7″:”UKIP Wales”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.ukip.wales/”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_leader_1″:”Neil Hamilton”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* End lockdown measures immediately u003cbr>* A referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government u003cbr>* Scrap Welsh government’s ‘Nation of Sanctuary’ policy for asylum seekers and refugees”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* End lockdowns immediately, enabling all businesses to re-open, and indiual freedom and travel to returnu003cbr>* Immediately halt ‘Vaccine Passport’ proposals and reviews, which seek to make vaccination mandatory under the threat of marginalisation from societyu003cbr>* Restore civil liberties, such as freedom of travel, freedom of association and freedom to attend events that have been taken away from us during the pandemic”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* Cut alcohol prices to reinvigorate the vital Welsh hospitality sector by cutting VAT on alcohol served in licensed premises. u003cbr>* Stimulate the Welsh tourism industry by proing a £100m recovery and refurbishment fund for Welsh tourist attractions and hotels/guest housesu003cbr>* Attract enterprise and investment into Wales by supporting the designation of Welsh free ports and other tax-free zones along new road constructions and in coastal areas”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Scrap the Welsh Baccalaureate and make the teaching of Welsh optional through the whole curriculum u003cbr>* Dismantle the four schools improvement consortia in Wales and redirect their annual £150m budget directly to schoolsu003cbr>* Scrap tuition fees for students studying degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at university proed that, after graduation, they stay in the UK and work in those fields during part of their student loan repayment periodu003cbr>* Put power back into the hands of parents by restoring and respecting their right to remove their children from relationship and sex education lessons and remove such lessons from primary schools altogether”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Introduce locally elected health boards, putting patients and families at the heart of NHS decision-makingu003cbr>* Dramatically increase the number of training places for British doctors, nurses and paramedics and ensure that the required number of nurses and doctors are trained in Wales and the UK rather than imported from abroad.u003cbr>* Reunite families with loved ones in care homes without delayu003cbr>* Ensure that those who have paid sufficient tax and NI will not be forced to use their savings and home to pay for social care”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Build on the untapped potential of the fishing industry in Wales by campaigning to take back full control of our watersu003cbr>* Deport bogus asylum seekers who currently cannot currently be removed as a result of loopholes in the European Convention on Human Rightsu003cbr>* Defend the togetherness and integrity of the United Kingdom by ditching the border in the Irish Sea and the damaging Northern Ireland Protocol”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Lobby the UK Government to scrap the Climate Change Act (2008)u003cbr>* Scrap all subsidies for so-called "green" energy projects which transfer money from taxpayers, including the poorest in society, to already rich environmental chancersu003cbr>* Champion the growth of British farming, fishing, food safety and animal welfare standardsu003cbr>* Push ahead with a post-Brexit ban of live animal exports for slaughter”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* Seek to minimise the use of zero-hour contracts except where they are to the mutual benefit of employee and employer, and to ensure that everyone can earn a living wageu003cbr>* Oppose the devolution of any further benefits to the Welsh Parliament. u003cbr>* Free prescriptions, Council Tax and Discretionary (Social) assistance benefits will remain under UKIPu003cbr>* End job discrimination and ensure applicants obtain roles based on merit, not on their ability to speak Welsh”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* Bring housing demand under control by implementing firm and fair immigration controlu003cbr>* Give local people a greater say on major planning decisions in their communities through legally binding local referendau003cbr>* Where possible, incentivise local development by British companies to bring brownfield sites and derelict homes back into use, so that they can be released as affordable housing to local people”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Support the building of the M4 relief roadu003cbr>* Sell Cardiff airport immediately to mitigate any further loss to Welsh taxpayers, so that a new owner can operate it on a proper commercial basisu003cbr>* Re-open train stations and railway lines to improve connectivity across Wales, where appropriate, by reviewing the Beeching cuts”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* Deliver a long overdue referendum on scrapping the Senedd and Welsh Government at the earliest opportunityu003cbr>* Campaign to scrap the Senedd and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr>* Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr>* Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18″,”party_8″:”Propel”,”party_8_website”:”https://www.propel.wales/”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Neil McEvoy”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Formally end all lockdowns, committing not to return to them and to repeal ‘draconian’ policing powersu003cbr>* Establish a Welsh national energy company to extract gas reserves in former coal fields to replace use of imported gas.u003cbr>* A Modern Democracy Act to create a Welsh constitution and a bill of rights – giving the public the right to call national and local referendums”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Establish an independent and transparent enquiry into the Welsh government’s response to the coronavirus pandemicu003cbr>* Introduce a Coronavirus Recovery Act to end all lockdowns in Wales, repeal all "draconian" policing powers, tackle coronavirus through social distancing measures and shielding the vulnerable, reclassify gyms as essential services and will stay open, as will schools, and a policy of full transparency of all data and decisions takenu003cbr>* Renegotiate the furlough scheme to pay people impacted by Co restrictions to work safely, while continuing to support shielding of the vulnerable”,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Establish a Stock Exchange Cymru for listing Welsh companies who wish to publicly trade company shares\ru003cbr>* Create a Welsh Sovereign Wealth Fund to develop a long-term, sustainable portfolio of investments, under the Santiago Principles\ru003cbr>* Create eight co-operative community banks, with a primary focus on investing in existing and new small and medium-sized local businesses\ru003cbr>* Reindustrialise Wales for the 21st Century through emphasis on developing high-tech, sustainable manufacturing for export\ru003cbr>* Develop a new public procurement strategy to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Schools will stay open and will not be locked down\ru003cbr>* Pass a new Welsh Medium Education Act to bring together all existing legislative strands to proe unambiguous legal clarity in the future”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* Implement Robbie’s Law to make a duty of candour legally binding on medical practitioners and across the public sector, meaning they must be truthful in the event of mistakes or negligence\ru003cbr>* Establish independent, non-party political and elected Public Services Investigators (PSI) to investigate complaints about public services in Wales\ru003cbr>* Launch an independent audit of Welsh Government waste, fraud or corruption. Savings made will be redirected to the NHS.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Respect the results of the EU referendum, in which a majority of Welsh people voted to leave the European Union”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Establish a Welsh national energy company, majority owned by the Welsh Government and local authorities, for conventional extraction of Wales’ known gas reserves to replace use of imported gasu003cbr>* Cheaper energy supply will be used to support local employment in our key strategic industries, including steel and manufacturingu003cbr>* Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund with the revenue generated to achieve long-term energy independence through investment in renewable energyu003cbr>* Utilise Welsh universities to become a world leader in carbon capture and storage technologyu003cbr>* Reject the building of any nuclear reactors and veto any attempts for nuclear material produced outside Wales from being stored or dumped in the country”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* A new public procurement strategy will be adopted to move towards 100% of public spending being awarded to Welsh companies”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* A ‘housing first’ policy to end Welsh homelessness and close the second homes loophole, whereby second homes are reclassified as businesses to avoid local taxation\ru003cbr>* Bring in an annual service charge cap for leaseholders, linked to the Consumer Price Index\ru003cbr>* Not to grant building contracts to existing developers until they have rectified dangerous fire cladding in previous developments\ru003cbr>* Introduce a new Right to Buy scheme for social housing tenants, with all revenue directed towards building more quality social housing\ru003cbr>* Set compulsory targets for local authorities to bring long-term empty properties back into use\ru003cbr>* Outlaw the renaming of Welsh-named properties to protect Welsh culture\ru003cbr>* Guarantee that all military veterans who have seen active service will be prioritised for public housing and healthcare”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Upgrade Wales’ strategic road network to expressway standard, including a North-South National Expressway\ru003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Aberystwyth to Carmarthen and Afon Wen to Bangor railway lines\ru003cbr>* A single ticketing system for public transport journeys”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Create a Welsh constitution and bill of rights. The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr>* The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr>* Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr>* The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr>* The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr>* Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr>* Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs”,”party_9″:”Communist Party of Great Britain”,”party_9_website”:”https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wales/”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Robert Griffiths”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Build 10,000 council homes a year”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* Applaud work of NHS staff during the pandemicu003cbr>* Nationalise pharmaceutical companiesu003cbr>* Invest in super-fast broadband to encourage more working from home”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Take failing compaines into ‘democratic public ownership’u003cbr>* Create a Welsh National Economic Development Authority with the power to direct investment of private capitalu003cbr>* Replace council tax with a local income tax”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* Abolish private educationu003cbr>* Create an alternative assessment system to replace the ‘exam factory’u003cbr>* Welsh-medium schools and nurseries available in every part of Wales”,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Create ‘primary health partnerships’ of GPs, councils, residents, housing associations, schools and health professionals to assess the long-term health needs of communitiesu003cbr>* A National Care Service with residential and nursing services free at the point of needu003cbr>* A standard employment contract for care workers”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Wales voted to leave the "capitalist big business" EU and Brexit means "new opportunities" for Wales”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Increased investment in renewable energy including tidal power and off-shore wind farmsu003cbr>* Support clean coal with carbon capture from deep miningu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear power "until it can be demonstrated a safe nuclear fusion option is available"”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Outlaw asset-stripping, mass redundancies and company "fire and rehire" schemesu003cbr>* Extend maternity and paternity leaveu003cbr>* Free childcare from birth for parents who want to return to work”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Build 10,000 council homes a yearu003cbr>* Higher tax on vacant landu003cbr>* All social housing brought back under local authority control”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Nationalise rail and bus servicesu003cbr>* Capped travel costs for young people”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Self-government for Wales in a federal Britainu003cbr>* Wealth tax to redistribute wealth across nations and regions of Britain”,”party_10″:”Gwlad”,”party_10_website”:”https://gwlad.org/en/”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Gwyn Wigley Evans”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currencyu003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newportu003cbr>* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* Proe young people in ‘working from home’ situations with options where they can find suitable workspaces together with appropriate support and mentoringu003cbr>* Fast-track planning applications for change of use that involve the conversion of commercial property to residential use”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* All publicly funded contracts should include provision for sustainable local content to ensure that money spent by the Welsh Government and local authorities is spent in Wales wherever possibleu003cbr>* Prioritise the needs of businesses whose head offices are located in Wales, ensuring that they have the appropriate support from councils, infrastructure proers, educational institutions and funding bodies”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Expand Welsh-medium primary and secondary education so that it becomes "the norm in every part of Wales"u003cbr>* Humanities curriculum in schools to prioritise learning of Welsh history, traditions, culture and values u003cbr>* Student funding only given to students studying in Welsh institutions, other than for subjects not offered within Wales”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Smaller GP clinics combined into ‘polyclinics’, also proing outpatient services u003cbr>* Fee reductions for students studying medicine in Wales who undertake to work in Wales for a certain period of time on graduating”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* Keep open the option of a ‘re-join’ referendum if circumstances change u003cbr>* Seek to emulate New Zealand in expanding global trade”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Support investment in alternative technologies such as hydrogen technology as a way of storing, transporting and consuming energy generated by renewable methods u003cbr>* Not anti-nuclear in principle, but oppose large projects such as Wylfa Bu003cbr>* Take all water assets within Wales into public ownership and to place them under the control of existing ‘not-for-profit’ Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Welsh Revenue Authority takes responsibility for accurately accounting for all the taxation revenue generated within Wales u003cbr>* Post-independence – replace the current benefits and taxation system with Citizens’ Income and Flat Tax”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Require a licence for owning a second home, with the council charge surcharge set at 500% u003cbr>* Tenants to have a right of first refusal if a landlord wishes to sell a property u003cbr>* A new Wales National Housing Agency”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* A 2/3 lane ‘Powys Spine Road’ along the A470 & A483 corridors u003cbr>* Peak-hour congestion charging along the M4 east of Newport u003cbr>* Reinstatement of the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth railway line and the extension of the Cambrian Coast line northwards”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Wales to be indepdenent in the longer term, with its own currency u003cbr>* Referendum on whether to retain the monarchy u003cbr>* Single Transferrable Vote (STV) system to be used for elections”,”party_11″:”Wales Green Party”,”party_11_website”:”https://wales.greenparty.org.uk/”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Anthony Slaughter”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Green Transformation Fund to raise and direct money locally into communities to create 10k jobs in the green economy and homebuildingu003cbr>* Secure the future of the NHS by joining up health and social care, and investing in much better local health servicesu003cbr>* Fix the climate emergency, go carbon zero by 2030 and work to restore nature”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Ensure that Wales’ recovery from the pandemic is both fair and green\ru003cbr>* Establish a public inquiry into the Welsh government’s handling of the pandemic \ru003cbr>* Proe further protections against transmission in schools by introducing effective protections to make them safer”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Deliver a sustainable Wales with an ambitious Green New Deal that creates tens of thousands of new jobs \ru003cbr>* Ensure low rent and rates for existing small business, creative enterprises, and social and environmental start-ups to fill empty shops and bring back life to our high streets\ru003cbr>* Call for the immediate introduction of a Universal Basic Income that shares prosperity across society”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Stop the ongoing closure of small rural schoolsu003cbr>* Proe access to electronic devices for all children who need to learn from home, and access to structured programmes of work if they are unable to attend schoolu003cbr>* Widen access to higher and further education, ensuring that no fees are payable for initial degrees”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Safeguard the NHS as a free at the point of delivery, publicly-funded body\ru003cbr>* Ensuring that health boards and local authorities have the funding needed to increase capacity across all areas of health and social care provision\ru003cbr>* Ensure neighbourhood access to all treatments that can be made available locally\ru003cbr>* Provision of social support for disabled people, older people and their carers will be given early and quickly, enabling all to live fulfilled lives”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* Work to strengthen our bonds with our European neighbours and allies at every level, promoting future positive opportunities and tackling the damage caused to Wales by Brexitu003cbr>* Push for the UK government to seek ways to re-join the EU customs union as a matter of urgencyu003cbr>* Support efforts to re-join the Erasmus+ programme and work with all parties to maximise the educational and cultural opportunities available to our young people across Europe”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* Tackle the climate emergency by ensuring that carbon emission reduction targets are met at the scale and pace needed, as demanded by the science\ru003cbr>* Deliver a Green vision for net zero by 2030, replacing fossil fuels with onshore and offshore renewable energy and making necessary upgrades to the electricity grid\ru003cbr>* Appoint a new Welsh Government Commissioner for Biodiversity and Animal Protection to reverse the decline of biodiversity in Wales \ru003cbr>* Propose a bill to ban single-use plastic and legislation to progressively reduce all non-recyclable packaging waste, with a goal for an overall reduction on packaging”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Advocate for a four-day week to share work opportunities and respond to the greater automation and digitisation of manufacturing and servicesu003cbr>* Bring unions into local economy planning and proe workers with support for social and environmental business start-upsu003cbr>* Improve wages and working conditions for front-line workers, partly through UBI, but also through improved public service and care workers pay settlements, workers’ rights in collective bargaining, employment rights and health and safetyu003cbr>* End the ‘gig’ economy in Wales and exploitative zero-hours contracts through UBI and the extension of worker’s rights”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Build 12,000 new homes every year, built to the highest environmental and energy efficiency standards\ru003cbr>* Ensure sufficient, ongoing investment to enable the retrofitting of existing housing stock to the highest energy efficient standards, lifting thousands out of fuel poverty\ru003cbr>* Proe greater security for tenants by phasing out Assured Shorthold Tenancies in the private sector and proe those struggling with mortgage arrears with security of tenure through a ‘Right to Rent’ scheme”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Create better, affordable, cleaner transport options for all, including access to better walking, cycling and other active travel options and affordable public transportu003cbr>* Introduce a national transport strategy that responds to the climate emergency by reducing 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u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container welsh_conservative_party”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_2 name=”welsh_conservative_party”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Welsh Conservative Party party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/welsh_conservative_party.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Welsh Conservative Party u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Andrew RT Davies u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n 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class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’reform_party_uk’ href=”https://reformparty.uk/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_5 name=”abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Richard Suchorzewski u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Richard Suchorzewski icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/richard_suchorzewski.png” />n u003c/div>n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Main policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Abolish the Welsh Assembly/Senedd through a referendumu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Restore one NHS u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> End 1 million Welsh speakers target u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Co-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 81.77 80.79″>u003ctitle> Co-19 icon 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scrapping the Welsh Parliamentu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Give tax powers back to Westminster as per statement on ballot paper in 2011 referendum that "the Assembly cannot make laws on … tax whatever the result of this vote" u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’abolish_the_welsh_assembly_party’ href=”https://www.abolishthewelshassembly.co.uk/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container welsh_liberal_democrats”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_6 name=”welsh_liberal_democrats”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Welsh Liberal Democrats party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/welsh_liberal_democrats.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 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Move towards a separate Welsh legal jurisdiction to allow Wales to move towards a more just and accountable system that prioritises effective rehabilitationu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce a fairer voting system for the Senedd and all councils, ensuring that every vote matters u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’welsh_liberal_democrats’ href=”https://www.welshlibdems.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container ukip_wales”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_7 name=”ukip_wales”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”UKIP Wales party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/ukip_wales.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 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and oppose any increases to the number of Senedd Membersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Repeal Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru’s granting of votes to foreignersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Ensure that the voting age in Wales and the UK is 18 u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’ukip_wales’ href=”https://www.ukip.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container propel”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_8 name=”propel”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Propel party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/propel.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Propel u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” 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u003ch4> Work and benefits u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” data-name=”work & benefits” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 74.32 50.95″>u003ctitle> Work and benefits icon u003c/title>u003cg id=”w_b” data-name=”w b”>u003cg id=”Group_11912″ data-name=”Group 11912″>u003cpath id=”Path_63162″ data-name=”Path 63162″ 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The constitution will enact the principle of ‘modern direct democracy’, meaning the public will have the right to bring about national and local referenda by collecting signaturesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The proportional Single Transferable Vote system for elections will be adopted for national and local electionsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Wales’ twenty-two local authorities will be replaced with eight counties, largely based on Wales’ preserved county borders. Each county will have a recognised capital, a directly elected governor and a community co-operative bank. Each county shall be considered to be sovereign, except where law-making power has been reserved to the Welsh parliamentu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The Presiding Officer of the Senedd must sit as an independent to prevent political biasu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The Welsh First Minister will be directly electedu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Commission a feasibility study on the creation of an upper house for the Welsh Parliament, to be located in North Walesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support citizen journalism to proe a more diverse and accurate picture of politics and current affairs u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’propel’ href=”https://www.propel.wales/”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container communist_party_of_great_britain”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_9 name=”communist_party_of_great_britain”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Communist Party of Great Britain party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/communist_party_of_great_britain.png?v=2.2″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Communist Party of Great Britain u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/wales/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=2.2″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Robert Griffiths u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Robert Griffiths icon” 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