Government Tracker

Progress displayed publicly—so every single person in this country can judge our performance on actions, not words.

Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister – 24 September 2024

Full Fact’s Government Tracker is monitoring the government’s delivery on its promises so voters can judge what progress it has made. The Prime Minister himself has said this is important, and we want to play a role in holding his government to account. To date, we have looked at 72 key pledges, from Labour’s 2024 election manifesto and from further announcements made since. Read more about the tracker, including how we chose the pledges.

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Policy area Pledge Status Updated
Education “We will support families with children by introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school”
In progress
 6 Aug
Culture and society “Labour will finally deliver a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices”
In progress
 7 Aug
Crime, police and justice “Labour will introduce a ‘Hillsborough Law’ which will place a legal duty of candour on public servants and authorities, and provide legal aid for victims of disasters or state-related deaths”
In progress
 15 Jul
Defence “We will deliver our commitment to spend 2.5% of GDP on defence, but we will bring it forward so that we reach that level in 2027 and we will maintain that for the rest of this Parliament”
In progress
 18 Jun
Energy “We will not grant new coal licences”
Appears on track
 14 Jul
Transport “We will fix an additional one million potholes across England in each year of the next parliament”
In progress
 10 Jun
Energy “We will not issue new licences to explore new [oil and gas] fields”
Appears on track
 27 May
Education “Giving children the best start in life, with a record 75% of 5-year-olds in England ready to learn when they start school”
Wait and see
 3 Jul
Economy “The government will deliver a milestone of higher living standards in every part of the United Kingdom by the end of the Parliament”
Wait and see
 20 May
Economy “We will end the use of offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax so that everyone who makes their home here in the UK pays their taxes here”
Achieved
 11 Jul
Crime, police and justice “Labour will intervene earlier to stop young people being drawn into crime, creating a new Young Futures programme with a network of hubs reaching every community”
In progress
 9 Jul
Crime, police and justice “Labour will [introduce] new Respect Orders - powers to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres, which will stamp out issues such as public drinking and drug use”
Appears on track
 9 Jul
Economy “Kickstart economic growth to secure the highest sustained growth in the G7”
In progress
 15 Aug
Health and social care “As a first step, in England, we will deliver an extra two million NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year; that is 40,000 more appointments every week”
Achieved
 18 Jul
Economy “Productivity growth in every part of the country”
Wait and see
 13 Aug
Crime, police and justice “Raising confidence in the police … to its highest levels”
In progress
 14 Mar
Democracy “Labour will [...] address the inconsistencies in voter ID rules that prevent legitimate voters from voting. For example, in the case of HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards”
Appears on track
 22 Jul
Health and social care “We will recruit an additional 8,500 new staff to treat children and adults through our first term”
In progress
 8 Jul
Health and social care "We will return to meeting NHS performance standards. That means patients should expect to wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral for consultant-led treatment of non-urgent health conditions"
In progress
 13 Mar
Health and social care "We will train thousands more GPs"
Unclear or disputed
 13 Mar
Crime, police and justice “Raising confidence in the … criminal justice system to its highest levels”
Unclear or disputed
 8 Aug
Crime, police and justice “Labour will carry out a review of sentencing to ensure it is brought up to date”
Achieved
 27 May
Education “Recruit 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects”
In progress
 13 May
Crime, police and justice “Take back our streets by halving serious violent crime"
Wait and see
 15 Aug
Housing “We will immediately update the National Policy Planning Framework [sic] to undo damaging Conservative changes, including restoring mandatory housing targets”
Achieved
 3 Jul
Economy “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase [...] VAT”
Appears on track
 25 Jul
Energy “Labour will capitalise Great British Energy with £8.3 billion, over the next parliament”
In progress
 18 Jul
Migration “Labour will set up a new returns and enforcement unit, with an additional 1,000 staff, to fast-track removals to safe countries for people who do not have the right to stay here”
In progress
 13 Mar
Health and social care “Labour will ensure the next generation can never legally buy cigarettes”
Appears on track
 4 Jul
Democracy “We will … [give] 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections”
Appears on track
 22 Jul
Housing “Labour will get Britain building again … with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament”
Appears off track
 21 Jul
Health and social care "Labour will introduce a new ‘Fit For the Future’ fund to double the number of CT and MRI scanners, allowing the NHS to catch cancer and other conditions earlier, saving lives"
In progress
 15 Jul
Economy “Labour will cap corporation tax at the current level of 25%, the lowest in the G7, for the entire parliament”
Appears on track
 7 Jul
Education “Labour will end the VAT exemption and business rates relief for private schools”
Achieved
 16 Jun
Economy “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase [...] the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax”
Appears on track
 7 Aug
Economy “We will abolish non-dom status once and for all, replacing it with a modern scheme for people genuinely in the country for a short period”
Achieved
 7 Jul
Migration “We will negotiate additional returns arrangements to speed up returns”
Achieved
 10 Jul
Migration "Ending the wasteful Migration and Economic Development partnership with Rwanda”
Achieved
 4 Jul
Migration “We will … end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”
Appears off track
 24 Jul
Defence “Labour will conduct a Strategic Defence Review within our first year in government”
Achieved
 3 Jun
Economy “Labour will establish a National Wealth Fund”
Achieved
 14 Jul
Economy “Every fiscal event making significant changes to taxation or spending will be subject to an independent OBR forecast”
Achieved
 3 Jul
Energy “Labour will create a new publicly-owned company, Great British Energy”
Achieved
 29 May
Culture and society “We will introduce a Football Governance Bill, which will establish an independent regulator to ensure financial sustainability of football clubs in England”
Achieved
 14 May
Energy “A new Energy Independence Act will establish the framework for Labour’s energy and climate policies”
Wait and see
 3 Jul
Democracy “Labour will also introduce a mandatory retirement age. At the end of the Parliament in which a member reaches 80 years of age, they will be required to retire from the House of Lords”
Wait and see
 24 Jul
Democracy “The next Labour government will therefore bring about an immediate modernisation, by introducing legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords”
Appears on track
 24 Jul
Democracy “We will introduce a new participation requirement [for House of Lords members]”
Wait and see
 25 Jul
Economy “Capitalised with £7.3 billion over the course of the next Parliament, the National Wealth Fund will have a remit to support Labour’s growth and clean energy missions”
Not kept
 11 Jul
Economy “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance”
Unclear or disputed
 7 Aug
Migration “We will create a new Border Security Command, with hundreds of new investigators, intelligence officers, and cross-border police officers”
Achieved
 13 Mar
Economy “Labour will not increase taxes on working people”
Unclear or disputed
 8 Aug
Defence “We will set out the path to spending 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence”
Achieved
 3 Jul
Health and social care “Labour will tackle the immediate crisis with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments”
In progress
 16 Jul
Economy “Our fiscal rules are non-negotiable … This means that the current budget must move into balance, so that day-to-day costs are met by revenues and debt must be falling as a share of the economy by the fifth year of the forecast”
Appears on track
 12 May
Health and social care “We will train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan”
Unclear or disputed
 20 May
Health and social care “Labour will undertake a programme of reform to create a National Care Service, underpinned by national standards, delivering consistency of care across the country”
Wait and see
 20 May
Migration “Labour will reduce net migration”
Wait and see
 23 May
Housing “We will immediately abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions”
Appears on track
 2 Jun
Environment “We will ban trail hunting”
In progress
 10 Jun
Crime, police and justice “Labour will introduce a new Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee”
In progress
 14 Aug
Crime, police and justice “Every young person caught in possession of a knife will be referred to a Youth Offending Team and will receive a mandatory plan to prevent reoffending, with penalties including curfews, tagging, and custody for the most serious cases”
Unclear or disputed
 20 Jun
Democracy “We will establish a new independent Ethics and Integrity Commission, with its own independent Chair, to ensure probity in government”
Appears on track
 29 Jul
Culture and society “We will also modernise, simplify, and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process”
Wait and see
 10 Jul
Migration “We will [...] increase the number of safe countries that failed asylum seekers can swiftly be sent back to”
Wait and see
 13 Aug
Economy “Labour will [implement] ‘Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay: Delivering a New Deal for Working People’ in full – introducing legislation within 100 days”
Appears on track
 21 Jul
Crime, police and justice “Labour will … create a new specific offence for assaults on shopworkers that will protect them from threats and violence”
Appears on track
 21 Jul
Environment “This Government will cut water companies’ sewage pollution in half by the end of the decade”
Wait and see
 25 Jul
Foreign policy “We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state”
Wait and see
 31 Jul
Crime, police and justice “Labour will scrap the effective immunity for some shoplifting”
Appears on track
 12 Aug
Foreign policy “Labour is committed to restoring development spending at the level of 0.7 per cent of gross national income as soon as fiscal circumstances allow”
Appears off track
 18 Aug
Culture and society “Labour will introduce a landmark Race Equality Act, to enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority people, strengthen protections against dual discrimination and root out other racial inequalities”
In progress
 19 Aug