Conservatives
- Oppose road-pricing
- Introduce a "Fair Fuel Stabiliser" to reduce fuel duty as oil prices rise and increase it as oil prices fall
- Introduce incentives for electricity network operators to establish a national electric car recharging network
- Stop funding new fixed speed cameras and switch to better and more improved road safety measures
- Aim to eliminate the bulk of the current financial deficit within 5 years
- Push for an international agreement to stop banks engaging in large scale trading using their own money, and a global levy on banks
Labour
- Rule out the introduction of national road pricing in the next parliament
- Target motorway widening, including on the M25
- Create 100,000 electric vehicle charging points by 2015
- A Targeted increase in public spending over the next year to sustain the financial recovery, before cutting the current financial deficit by more than 50% by 2014
- Work internationally to introduce a global levy on financial services
- Break up banks in which Government curerntly has a control stake
Liberal Democrats
- Cut major road budgets
- Committed in the long term to a revenue-neutral road-user pricing scheme on motorways and trunk roads
- Identify and cut £15bn per year of lower priority spending to protect front-line services while reducing the current financial deficit at least as fast as Labour plans
- Introduce a banking levy until such time as banks' retail and investment arms can be separated
