NI election: Key party policies

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Northern Ireland goes to the polls on 5 May to elect a new assembly. Browse the parties' key party policies below or click or tap a link to read more on a specific area.

Agriculture

Education

Environment

Health

Housing

Law and order

Local government

Sports and arts

Tourism

Transport

Parties listed alphabetically

  • Seek an all-party approach to health service transformation which is evidence-based and consulted on locally

  • Support shared education and continue working towards a single education system

  • Continue to implement 'Going for Growth' - the strategic action plan for agri-food

  • Continue to develop innovative approaches to removing interface barriers

  • Seek to increase spending on health by at least £1bn by the end of the next assembly term

  • Support shared education and continue working towards a single education system

  • Work with the agricultural industry to implement recommendations arising from 'Going for Growth'

  • Full implementation of the Fresh Start anti-paramilitary measures

  • Oppose privatisation of the health service and oppose cuts to frontline services

  • Ensure that all children have access to an integrated education throughout their academic careers

  • Encourage organic farming

  • Ensure a greater focus on domestic violence and the victims of domestic violence

  • Establish cross-party consensus on health policy

  • Promote a diverse, shared education system

  • Deliver the Farm Business Improvement Scheme

  • Continue progress towards a representative and accountable police service

  • Create a modern, financially sustainable health and social care system that delivers universal, high quality and safe services, free at the point of delivery

  • Reverse cuts to university places and reduce student fees ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access higher education

  • Support the agriculture industry with polices that cut energy costs, encourage skills development and competitively promote the north's food and drink sector

  • There can be no room for leniency when dealing with those who attack older people. Introduce mandatory prison terms for those convicted of such attacks

  • Deal effectively with hospital outpatient and inpatient waiting lists

  • Northern Ireland must value all its children, but to do so we must equally facilitate the academic potential of some and the different talents of others

  • Obtain greater stability in farm gate prices, with processors, banks and government all having to play their part

  • Address the needs of innocent victims

  • Safe, quality and easily accessible healthcare

  • Work toward the goal of an administratively unified education system in Northern Ireland

  • Ensure farmers receive a fairer share of the price paid for their produce in supermarkets

  • Increase police numbers to the levels envisaged in the Patten Report

  • Ensure that the bulk of the £55m per day wasted on the EU is put into our patient care for our own people

  • Stop Sinn Féin and the executive destroying what was once rated a world-best education system

  • UKIP will stand up to Brussels, Westminster and Stormont in the best interests of our agriculture and fishing industries

  • Take back control of our borders and recognise, however limited, the benefits of controlled immigration