{"pk":5538,"title":"Labour has delivered on Health, Education and Employment","description":"Health\r\n* shortest waiting times since NHS began\r\n* Three million more operations each year\r\n* Over 44,000 more and better paid doctors\r\n* Over 89,000 more and better paid nurses\r\n\r\nEducation\r\n* More new schools in the last decade than last century\r\n* Over 42,000 more teachers\r\n* 123,000 more teaching assistants\r\n* Over 3 million child Trust Funds have been started\r\n\r\nEmployment\r\n* Despite recession - more people in work than in 1997\r\n* National Minimum Wage for the lowest paid workers\r\n* Minimum Wage uprated each year - benefits 1 million people\r\n* 234,000 apprenticeships now compared to 75,000 in 1997\r\n\r\nMortgages\r\n* 65.6% of households are privately owned\r\n* Mortgage rates at their lowest levels since the 1950's\r\n* On average Mortgage holders re £4,000 a year better off\r\n\r\nPensioners\r\n* 3,580 pensioners aged 80+ received £400 winter fuel payment\r\n* 21,140 individual recipient households received £250 winter fuel payment\r\n* 7,130 pensioners are paid on average $54 per week Pension Credit\r\n\r\nEmployment\r\n* Working and Child Tax Credit paid to 9,400 families\r\n* Record increased in Child Benefit","party":{"party_id":"party:53","party_name":"Labour Party"},"people":[],"images":[{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/cdf60fada4f41f941d719b33a310f603.jpg","image_type":null},{"image":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/leaflets/c24d40a1f37aa8008d93eb1bba667e93.jpg","image_type":null}],"first_page_thumb":"https://images.electionleaflets.org/thumbs/350/leaflets/cdf60fada4f41f941d719b33a310f603.png","date_uploaded":"2010-05-09T16:28:16+01:00","date_delivered":"2010-05-02T00:00:00+01:00","status":"live"}