Find out what each candidate running for Greater Manchester Metro Mayor has proposed across key policy areas.

1. youth and
adult skills
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Lobby the government to devolve more
powers over education to ensure schools
and colleges meet the region’s needs
• Establish a year of service to help young
people develop their work skills and play
a part in their community
• Use the Apprenticeship Levy to identify and
fill skills gaps in health and social care
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
• Work to introduce a guarantee that every
16-25 year old is offered suitable work,
education or training
• Partner with the business sector to increase
the number of young people taken on as
interns and apprentices
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
• Apprenticeship Grant for Employers.
• Adult Skills Budget.
• Post-16 further education system.
The metro mayor will have control over the:
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Establish the GM Schools Commissioner to
drive up standards in schools
• Create a UCAS-style application system for all
apprenticeships in GM
• Develop a new 14+ strategy for skills in GM
• Establish the GM “Curriculum for life”
an advice service for young people
• Call for the Apprenticeship Levy to be
developed into a Skills Levy
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
No skills policies in manifesto

2. transport and
infrastructure
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Introduce smart ticketing
• Bring GM’s buses under the Mayor’s control,
subject to legislation
• Establish a bike rental scheme
• Ensure smart motorways are promoted to
full-length of the M60
• Expand the roadworks permit scheme to
include a roadworks lane rental scheme
• Establish a single investment fund for
transport
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
• Look to expand Metrolink to service all ten
boroughs and introduce more double-length
trams to ease overcrowding at busy times
• Develop an orbital tram route around Greater
Manchester
• Introduce smart payment to pay once for integrated
travel on trams, trains and buses
• Introduce a one-hour ticket that allows unlimited
travel on bus, tram and train in Greater Manchester
within the time limit.
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
• Consolidated transport budget
• Local roads network
• Bus franchising and smart ticketing
The metro mayor will have control over the:
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Introduce half-price travel tickets for 16-18
year olds as a first step to give all 16-18 year
olds in GM a free bus pass
• Campaign to bring forward plans for the
Northern Powerhouse Rail connecting
Manchester with Liverpool, Leeds and beyond
• Call for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail
to be built as a single integrated scheme.
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
• Push for High Quality rather than High Speed
• Work to avoid a blunt congestion charge being
rolled out in GM until transport alternatives are
available
• Support walking buses; and get behind the
Living Streets WOW campaign
• Seek to appoint a Walking and Cycling
Champion for GM
• Link up existing lines with an ‘Outer Circle’
network and push for the remaining boroughs
to be connected to the network
• Push for step-free access
• Make sure there is a clear, integrated bus
service
• Work towards flattening our public transport
fare system
• Support plans for passengers to be able to buy
a single ticket
• Abolish the Twisted PeakTime fares
• Support car clubs and work to encourage car
sharing

3. housing and
planning
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Establish a Greater Manchester Infrastructure
Guarantee to ensure land can only be
allocated for development once required
schools, roads, public transport and health
facilities are in place.
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
• Reject the current Greater Manchester Spatial
Framework
• Use Mayoral Compulsory Purchase Order powers to
enable more brownfield development
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
• £30m per year Housing Investment Fund
• Strategic planning and Mayoral Development Corporations
• Land Commission and compulsory purchase powers
The metro mayor will have control over the:
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Work to establish a new GM-wide Rent to Own
Scheme particularly focused on people under
30 to help them on to the housing ladder
• Look into freeing young people leaving care
from liability for Council Tax until they are 21
as already done in Rochdale Council
• Introduce a GM-wide voluntary registration
scheme for private landlords in GM
• Radical re-write of the Greater Manchester
Spatial Framework
• Establish a new Homeliness Action Network.
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
• Push Manchester City Council to re-open the
homeless shelters it ran in 2015
• Support the Housing First social model
• Prioritise support for those groups who need
the most attention – women, LGBTQ
community, young people, older and disabled
people
• Set up a GM Renters’ Union and a GM Landlord
Register
• Throw out the Spatial Framework and replace it
with a People’s Housing Plan
• Focus on reusing empty properties, brownfield
sites and vacant business property
• Support housing associations and builders who
draw up shared ownerships and mixed tenure
developments
• Work with universities to ensure affordable
accommodation for students

4. business and
employment
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Establish a Mayor’s Business Forum to
listen to the views of GM businesses
• Ensure employees under the control of the
Mayor are paid the living wage
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
No business and enterprise policies in manifesto
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Create a Business Advisory Panel that will
work closely with LEPs to provide guidance on
policies
• Ensure employees under the control of the
mayor are paid the living wage
• Develop a Good GM Employers’ Charter
setting out the basic standards and actions
expected of good businesses
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
• Establish a Greater Manchester Real-Living
Wage and drive the Zero Hour Contracts out of
GM, publicising those who adopt both
measures with a Real-Living Wage Certificate
• Push for more mixed-use town centres,
converting unused retail space into offices as
part of the rethink to the Spatial Framework
• Work with businesses to promote more flexible
ways of working, aiming for 20% of GM
workforce to work from home
• Encourage sustainable businesses to set up in
GM

5. environment
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Establish green highways and plant 10,000
trees around motorways and poor air quality
areas
• Convert all public service vehicles to
lower emissions
• Establish a green bus fund to get polluting
vehicles off the road
• Double the number of electric car charging
points to make this a viable method of
transport in GM
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
• Develop schemes to reduce pollution emitted in
Greater Manchester, including by encouraging
less polluting forms of transport
• Encourage pollution-scrubbing technology,
including green wall, green roofs and urban parks
• Encourage carbon emission reduction for our
businesses and communities
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Host a Mayor’s Green Summit to declare a
new, accelerated ambition for GM on the
green economy and carbon-neutrality
• Support City of Trees to establish City Forest
Park and back the plan to plant 3 million trees
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
• Push on improving air quality
• Roll out a network of London-style Low
Emission Zones
• Move to low emission buses being the
standard around the city region
• Defend areas such as Pomona and Nutsford
Vale

6. health and
social care
Greater Manchester Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Support a single blue light service
• Establish a volunteer befriender network
for older people and those caring for them
Sean Anstee, Conservatives
• Work for a unified Health and Social Care system
that properly meets the needs of all people in
Greater Manchester
• Work for a seamless Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Service for young people aged 0-25
• Introduce a specialist Rapid Assessment,
Intervention and Discharge (RAID) mental health
team at all hospitals
Jane Brophy, Liberal Democrats
• £6bn integrated health and social care budget
The metro mayor will have control over the:
The above is based on the manifestos made public by declared candidates, Shneur Odze from UKIP has not published a manifesto at the time of publication
• Introduce in GM the country’s first fully
integrated National Health and Care service
building on the work already ongoing
• Introduce a new social prescribing scheme
across GM, where GPs are able to offer a
range of non-traditional support
• Make mental health a priority in GM
Andy Burnham, LabourWill Patterson, Greens
• Fight any proposals to introduce background
checks or upfront charges for any patient
• Work with the Councils to protect funding for
Quit Smoking services
• Work for exclusion zones against fast-food
shops around schools
• Defend funding for consistent sexual health
services and for mental health services