Complex sentence: The Labour government also introduced Britain's first National Minimum Wage Act, followed by various programmes targeted at specific sections of the population: the target for reducing homelessness was achieved by 2000, for example.
Split into simpler sentences: The Labour government also introduced Britain's first National Minimum Wage Act. And there have also been various programmes targeted at specific sections of the population: the target for reducing homelessness was achieved by 2000, for example.