It's decision time. Finally the General Election 2010 is here. But before you rush out to mark your cross in the polling booth, here is a recap of what the three main parties are offering in six key policy areas.

Lib Dems

Economy

• Scrap tax on earnings up to £10,000 per year; Homes worth above £2m to pay "mansion tax"; Cut £15bn a year, with promise to cut deficit at least as fast as Labour
  

Health

• Create local health boards with power to stop hospital closures; Let patients register at more than one practice; Encourage dentists back to the NHS

Education

• Bring city academies under local council control; Replace National Curriculum to give teachers more freedom; Scrap target of 50% of young people attending university

Defence

• Scrap plans to replace Trident and buy Eurofighter jets; Pull troops out of Afghanistan before next Parliament

Immigration

• Regional quotas for migrants to match UK employment needs; Amnesty for illegal immigrants who have lived in UK for more than a decade in return for community service; Allow asylum seekers to work

Crime

• 3,000 more police officers; Annual fitness test for officers; Replace short prison sentences with community services to ease prison crowding

Labour

Economy

• Promises to protect "frontline investment" in schools, childcare, the NHS and policing to ensure recovery, before taking "tough decisions" to more than halve deficit by next General Election; National Insurance (NI) rise of 1% from next April; Higher rate earners now pay 50% tax on income

Health

• Cancer patients to see a specialist within two weeks; Good hospitals to takeover failing ones to bring them up to standard; Free five year health checks for people aged 40-74

Education

• More city academies; Increase free nursery hours to 15 per week for three to five year-olds; £10,000 "golden handcuffs" to attract teachers to worst performing schools

Defence

• Begin troop pull-out in Afghanistan in Q4 2011; committed to building two aircraft carriers and replacing Trident nuclear deterrent

Immigration

• Tighten UK's Australian-style points system for entry to non-EU citizens; require migrants speak English before entry

Crime

• As with hospitals, failing police forces to be taken over by successful ones, or replacement of chief constable; parenting orders for those whose children breach ASBOs

Conservatives

Economy

• Immediate spending cuts to total £6bn in first year in office, with only NHS and foreign aid protected; inheritance threshold limit raised to £1m; scrap Labour's proposed 1% NI rise for low-mid earners; two year council tax freeze; cut in corporation tax

Health

• Up health spending above inflation until 2015; Link GPs pay to results; Change targets from waiting time to "cutting deaths from cancer" etc

Education

• Parents and charities to set up own schools; Parents able to takeover schools facing closure; Allow teachers to use "reasonable force" to deal with violence; Scrap student exclusion appeals

Defence

• Keep troops in Afghanistan; Replace Trident; Cut Ministry of Defence spending by 25%; Double bonuses for troops serving in Afghanistan

Immigration

• Reduce net immigration from "hundreds of thousands" to "tens of thousands" per year; Unspecified annual limit for non-EU migrants; Crackdown on student visa abuse

Crime

• Replace police authorities with directly elected police commissioners; Change law to protect "have-a-go-heroes" defending themselves against attackers