Policies announced by the Conservatives during their conference week in Manchester.

• Pay freeze in 2011 for all public sector staff except frontline service personnel and those on less than £18,000 a year
• No newly appointed public servant to be paid more than the prime minister without Treasury approval
• Proposed £50,000 annual cap on newly accrued public sector pensions
• Male state pension age to rise from 65 to 66 from 2016, subject to a review. Pension age for women to rise to 66 by 2022
• No tax credits to be paid for families with incomes of more than £50,000
• Child trust funds only to be paid to low-income families
• All residential care costs for the over 65s in England to be paid in return for a one-off £8,000 fee
• Firms created in first two years of Tory government to get tax break on first 10 staff hired
• 12 more English cities to be offered referenda on having elected mayors. Elected mayors to assume powers of council chief executives
• Public to have a say on proposed bills in Parliament
• End to automatic "guillotining" of government bills in Parliament to ensure more debate
• 20,000 new apprenticeship places for 14-16 year olds and 10,000 new university places
• New technical schools in England's 12 largest cities
• Reform welfare system by transferring 500,000 people from Incapacity Benefit to Jobseeker's Allowance
• Open grace-and-favour government residences to charities and voluntary groups
• No new funding for fixed speed cameras and councils to be encouraged to examine road safety alternatives
• Villages to be given powers to expand their housing stock by 10% over 10 years
• Government departments to make sure their food meets British standards of production
• Sites for new onshore wind farms to keep all of the business rate revenues they generate for six years
• End to the automatic privacy of criminals by giving police the power to disclose offenders' identities.

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