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Found a new National Infrastructure Company to manage public assets. u003cbr>* Create a £25m fund to help drive tourism recoveryu003cbr>* Offer £50m in funding to the winning proposal of a competition for economic transformation, as part of the delivery of a new 10-year strategyu003cbr>* Create a new £20m Rural Entrepreneur Fund – providing grants of up to £10,000 to support the relocation or creation of 2,000 new businessesu003cbr>* Increase investment in private sector-led research and development projects by £100m over the next five yearsu003cbr>* Invest an additional £500m to support new jobs and reskill people for the jobs of the future over the next parliament.”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Invest a further £1bn to close the school attainment gap and recruit 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistantsu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for primary school pupils all year and for all children in state-funded special schoolsu003cbr>* Provide every child with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use itu003cbr>* Fund the Young Person’s Guarantee of a university, college, apprenticeship, training place or job for every young person u003cbr>* Build a childcare system which provides care before and after school all year round, free for the least well-off familiesu003cbr>* Scrap charges for school trips and practical activities for less well-off families, and increase the school uniform grant to at least £120 in primary and £150 in secondary”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% to “support and renew” the NHS recovery, increasing funding of frontline services by over £2.5 billionu003cbr>* Increase social care investment by 25% which will back a the creation of a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Offer NHS staff a 4% average pay increase u003cbr>* Introduce a new national wage for care staff as well as national pay bargaining for the sectoru003cbr>* Increase direct investment into mental health services by at least 25% and ensure that in five years, 10% of the frontline NHS budget is invested in mental healthu003cbr>* Create a national pharmaceutical agency for the NHS to ensure secure and sustainable supply chains for vital medicines”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Maintain and strengthen Scotland’s relationship with the EU with a view to rejoining as soon as possibleru003cbr>* Continue to advocate for Scotland’s inclusion in the Erasmus programme”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Decarbonise the heating of one million homes by 2030 with investment of £1.6bn over five yearsru003cbr>* Double the Climate Justice Fund to £24m over four yearsru003cbr>* Implement a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers next yearru003cbr>* Increase targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025ru003cbr>* Invest £100m in a green jobs fund to support new and more opportunities for green job creation”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Freeze Income Tax rates and bands and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation u003cbr>* Remove council tax for under 22su003cbr>* Begin work to deliver a minimum income guarantee – a social welfare system that ensures everyone has enough money to live on, but gives additional support to those who need it such as for childcare or disabilityu003cbr>* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per child per week and give families with children in receipt of free school meals a cash grant of £520 until the programme is fully rolled out. u003cbr>* Publish a new four-year delivery plan to lift children out of poverty, backed by a £50m fundu003cbr>* Explore the transition to a four-day-week with a £10m fund to allow companies to pilot and measure its benefits”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Invest £3.5bn to deliver 100,000 affordable homes by 2032u003cbr>* Support our communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoodsu003cbr>* Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulationu003cbr>* Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland’s rail services by 2035u003cbr>* Provide free bikes for all children of school age who cannot afford them, remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from public transport by 2023 and create a greener, more affordable railwayu003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22u003cbr>* Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling”,”party_1_issue_12″:”* Undertake a review of Scotland’s prosecution system u003cbr>* Ensure that every child victim/witness will have access to a safe space based on the European Barnahus Model by 2025 u003cbr>* Appoint a victims’ commissioner to provide an independent voice for victims and witnesses and review the provision of victim servicesu003cbr>* Establish a new multi-year £100m funding stream over three years to support frontline services and focus on prevention of violence against women and girls from school onwards”,”party_2″:”Scottish Conservatives”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”,”party_2_colour”:”#0575C9″,”party_2_leader_1″:”Douglas Ross”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr>* Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr>* A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr>* A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities”,”party_2_issue_2″:”* £600m to tackle the NHS backlog in 2021-22u003cbr>* £40m to NHS staff wellbeing this year including rest facilities and mental health servicesu003cbr>* £120m into a catch-up premium for every Scottish school pupilu003cbr>* Delay the introduction of any new non-Covid related regulations on businesses to April 2023u003cbr>* £500 for every Scottish adult to retrain for work each yearu003cbr>* Tougher sentences for fraud following an increase during the pandemic”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Oppose a second referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Give the Scottish Parliament the tools it needs to properly scrutinise governmentu003cbr>* Bring forward proposals to allow voters to recall MSPs in exceptional circumstancesu003cbr>* Support a freeze in MSP and ministerial pay for the next five yearsu003cbr>* Support a reduction in the Cabinet from 12 to six”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* Fund for full fibre broadband to every home by 2027u003cbr>* Introduce a 10-working day national standard for all business support grant applications to be processedu003cbr>* Maintain the poundage rate freeze until the 2023 revaluationu003cbr>* 25% rates relief to businesses in 2022-23 u003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Exporting Institute for trade expertiseu003cbr>* Scrap parking charges to encourage local shopping”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Allocate £1bn of attainment funding to all schools over five yearsu003cbr>* Oppose any cancellation of examsu003cbr>* Review the quality of teacher training and recruit 3,000 teachers over the next parliamentu003cbr>* Allow every primary school child to access a free school lunch and breakfastu003cbr>* Create a Rural Teacher Fund to attract teachers to work in rural areasu003cbr>* Introduce a dedicated STEM teacher in every primary schoolu003cbr>* Introduce a “subject guarantee” to pupils that allows them all to take at least seven subjects in S4″,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Increase annual NHS funding by at least £2bn by 2025-26, based on current estimatesu003cbr>* Increase medical school training in line with future need, prioritising people who live in Scotlandu003cbr>* Invest at least 11% of the overall NHS budget into general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Increase mental health funding to 10% of the frontline health budgetu003cbr>* Maintain local democratic accountability of the social care system and avoid “unnecessary” structural reformsu003cbr>* Review the provision of drug treatment and recovery services before the end of the year”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Create a “global Britain” now that the country has left the EUu003cbr>* Negotiate a deal with the UK government to decide the future of the fishing industry”,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a £25m Cleaner Seas Fund to take harmful products including plastics out of the seasu003cbr>* End peat extraction and aim to restore peatland to 20,000 hectares by 2024-25u003cbr>* Bring forward a new Animal Welfare Bill which would ban the use of electric shock collars and the sale of dogs with cropped earsu003cbr>* Create Scotland’s third national park in Gallowayu003cbr>* Bring forward a Circular Economy Bill to help Scotland achieve net-zero emissions by 2045u003cbr>* Support the UK government’s North Sea Transition Deal”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Use devolved powers to target “specific” groups in receipt of the UK government’s £20 per week increase to Universal Creditu003cbr>* Free school lunches and breakfasts for all children in primary schoolu003cbr>* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Introduce a taper rate to the Carer Allowance so that carers do not lose all of their allowance if they earn more than the limitu003cbr>* End rough sleeping by 2026 by investing £10.8m in a Housing First programmeu003cbr>* Create a government-owned company to give disabled people work experience and skills to help them secure long-term employment”,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 new affordable homes with 40,000 of these in the social rented sectoru003cbr>* Invest £50m in the Rural Housing Fundu003cbr>* £2.5bn over the next five years on energy efficiency in homes and buildingsu003cbr>* Introduce Compulsory Sales Orders for long-term unoccupied properties in Scotlandu003cbr>* Ban the use of combustible cladding in Scotlandu003cbr>* Permanently increase the threshold for paying Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) to £250,000″,”party_2_issue_11″:”* Rebuild local railways where it would make “economic sense”u003cbr>* Expand the M8 to three lanes and upgrade the whole A1 to a dual carriagewayu003cbr>* Invest £200m to repair potholesu003cbr>* Deliver a national charging infrastructure by 2025 for electric vehiclesu003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Smart Travel Card for passengers to use on all types of domestic transport in Scotlandu003cbr>* Scrap Caledonian Maritime Assets and introduce long-term contracts for ferry operators”,”party_2_issue_12″:”* Bring in a Victims Law which would include an end to the not proven verdict u003cbr>* Introduce a Local Policing Act which would include reinstating policy scrutiny boards across Scotlandu003cbr>* Double the maximum sentence for assaults on police and other emergency workers u003cbr>* Introduce whole-life sentences, end the presumption against short sentences and end automatic early releasesu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Bill and introduce a Protection of Free Speech Billu003cbr>* Revoke prisoners’ right to vote”,”party_3″:”Scottish Labour”,”party_3_website”:”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”,”party_3_colour”:”#E91D0E”,”party_3_leader_1″:”Anas Sarwar”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr>* Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr>* Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr>* Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas”,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Deliver a national plan for recovery that has five key themes: jobs recovery, NHS recovery, education recovery, community recovery and climate recovery”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr>* Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr>* Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr>* Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Guarantee job or training opportunities following the pandemic by investing in a national training fund and investing in Scotland’s infrastructure u003cbr>* Boost economic growth by repurposing Scottish Enterprise as a business recovery agency focussing on a restart fund and transition fundu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas and introduce specific programmes aimed at regenerating the high streetu003cbr>* Establish a Better Business Scotland certification scheme for businesses who want to work with the public sector to ensure they meet high standards, and make sure no publicly procured contract uses zero-hours contractsu003cbr>* Restructure the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide funding for new ideas, offer investment for “capital for good” projects and support businesses transition to green and digital futuresu003cbr>* Reduce business rates on non-grocery bricks and mortar shops, and set up a taskforce to fully examine how business rates need to change”,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Deliver an Education Comeback Plan, including a personal tutoring programme for all ages and all pupilsu003cbr>* A resit guarantee for pupils affected by the pandemic, with the offer of a free college place to take national qualificationsu003cbr>* Provide extra digital training for staff and a digital device for every pupil, and give targeted support to households without broadband u003cbr>* A guaranteed completion opportunity for probationary teachers to ensure that they can gain registration and help to refresh the workforceu003cbr>* Implement a minimum student incomeu003cbr>* A summer comeback programme focusing on sport, outdoor activities, mental health and wellbeingu003cbr>* Prioritise vaccinations for teaching and school staff”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* An NHS recovery plan that gets services back on track and prioritises cancer treatment and careu003cbr>* Establish rapid diagnostic centres so patients can have a diagnosis within two weeks u003cbr>* Increase the mental health budget to 11% of the NHS budget, to match spending in England and Wales, and establish dedicated mental health A&Es in every health board areau003cbr>* Improve access to mental health support with a new referral and triage service and ensure GPs have dedicated mental health workers u003cbr>* Create a national care service u003cbr>* A real pay rise for NHS staff and raising social carers’ pay to £15 an hour, with an immediate rise to £12u003cbr>* Set up baby clubs to support mums of babies born during the pandemic, offer an extra health visitor visit at 18 months, ensure women have help to breastfeed and support women with post-natal depression”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Develop as close a relationship with the EU as possible as part of a radical redesign of the UK’s democratic institutionsru003cbr>* Explore the need to reform the immigration system so that it works for all nations and regions in the UK now that the UK has left the EU”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* Invest in energy efficiency measures for buildings across Scotlandu003cbr>* A Just Transition focused on developing the skills needed in a green recovery and protecting jobs and communities impacted by the transition to net zerou003cbr>* Develop a coherent biodiversity action plan for post-2020 for land, air and seau003cbr>* Give interest-free government loans to help more low and middle income households buy electric cars over the next two years and accelerate the roll-out of electric charging points u003cbr>* Increase active travel spending to 10% of the overall transport budget, giving priority to encouraging and enabling people to get out of their cars, onto bikes, and walk more u003cbr>* Decarbonise Scotland’s railways within 15 years, focusing on electrification, and seek to make train journeys between Scotland’s cities faster than going by car”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week by the end of 2022 u003cbr>* Abolish the council tax and replace it with a fairer alternative based on property values and ability to payu003cbr>* A guaranteed public sector job for six months for every unemployed person under 25, unemployed disabled people not already on a job scheme, and the long-term unemployed u003cbr>* Create a new £500 retraining grant for people who are unemployed or on furlough, without affecting existing payments, and an extra £750 in income support for unemployed people in training.u003cbr>* Bring shoppers back to town centres with a £75 prepaid card to every adult in Scotland to be spent in non-food retail businessesu003cbr>* Roll out government funded subsidies for holiday accommodation across Scotland giving tourists every third night of accommodation free on off-peak dates”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Build 200,000 zero carbon social homes over 10 yearsu003cbr>* Create a National Housing Agency to end the housing crisis u003cbr>* Reform the law to allow for the acquisition of land for social housing at existing use value u003cbr>* Guarantee fair rents and improve tenants’ rights in the private rented sector u003cbr>* Support people to own their own home, with specific support for young people and first-time buyers u003cbr>* End rough sleeping within the next five years”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Place railways back into public control and increase rail connectivity between smaller towns and villages by reopening stations and restoring neglected serviceu003cbr>* Give councils authority to directly run local bus services u003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to under 25s, with a long-term goal of universal free bus travelu003cbr>* Create neighbourhoods where people can access all the services they need within a 20-minute walku003cbr>* Bring all lifeline ferry services into public hands – with investment in a new fleet of ships fit for the future – and make ferry travel free for under 25s”,”party_3_issue_12″:”* Restore the connections between the police force and local communities and end further centralisationu003cbr>* Invest in specialist staff to rebalance the workforce and increase the number of officers in local divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr>* Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr>* Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr>* Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court”,”party_4″:”Scottish Greens”,”party_4_website”:”https://greens.scot”,”party_4_colour”:”#5FB25F”,”party_4_leader_1″:”Patrick Harvie”,”party_4_leader_2″:”Lorna Slater”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* A fair and green recovery from the pandemicu003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with direct investment in transport, warm homes and renewable energyu003cbr>* Re-join the European Union as an independent country”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Introduce a universal isolation grant to support people isolating because of an infectious disease such as Covid-19u003cbr>* Launch a public inquiry into the Scottish government’s response to the Covid pandemicu003cbr>* Develop robust PPE procurement and ensure fair access to treatment and rehabilitation for people with long Covidu003cbr>* Use a one-off windfall tax on profits made by larger companies as a result of the pandemic to rebalance the economy and support recovery”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next parliamentary term, and build the Green Yes campaignu003cbr>* Encourage further devolution of powers from Westminster to Holyrood such as energy and employment lawsu003cbr>* In the event of Scottish independence, introduce taxes on the wealthiest members of society, luxury goods and carbon emissions from corporations”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Phase in a four-day working weeku003cbr>* Introduce a 1% annual “millionaires tax” on wealth and assets above £1m – including property, land, pensions and other assetsu003cbr>* Scrap council tax and replace it with a residential property tax related to property valueu003cbr>* Support the partial replacement of corporation tax at the UK level with a carbon tax that increases over time in line with our climate targetsu003cbr>* Replace air passenger duty with a frequent flyer levy, where passengers pay increasing sums for flights after their first return in 12 months – but excluding domestic flights in the Highlands and islands”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Introduce year-round free school meals for all pupils including breakfast u003cbr>* Recruit 5,500 additional permanent teachers and 2,500 more additional needs teachers, and reduce class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupilsu003cbr>* Make an extra year of funding available for students who need it, for example those who need to repeat a year because of the pandemicu003cbr>* Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a kindergarten stage for three to six year oldsu003cbr>* End P1-S3 Scottish National Standardised Assessments and end homework in primary schools. In secondary schools, expand continuous assessment of coursework and reduce the role of exams.”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Commit at least 11% of health spending to general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Give 10% of frontline health spend to mental health and put £161m into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by 2026u003cbr>* Introduce “safe and compassionate” laws that allow terminally ill adults the right to an assisted deathu003cbr>* End competitive tendering in the care systemu003cbr>* Remove the rule that two doctors must approve abortions and retain the provision for abortions at home introduced during the pandemic”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Campaign with the support of the European Green Party to re-join the EU as an independent nationru003cbr>* Re-join the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programmeru003cbr>* Establish low carbon transport connections with Europe”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Source at least 70% of the onshore wind supply chain domesticallyu003cbr>* Invest in marine renewables and give financial support for innovation and to support early stage tidal turbines u003cbr>* Call on the UK government to stop issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration and development and end subsidies and tax breaks for the industryu003cbr>* Ban the importation of shale and fracked gas for processing in Scotland, and ensure the Scottish government can deliver the transition to net-zero u003cbr>* Introduce Low Emission Zones with immediate effect in all areas that breach air quality limits”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Introduce a Universal Basic Income pilot by negotiating the necessary powers from Westminster – and if refused, fund smaller-scale, more limited pilots that do not require powersu003cbr>* Support the transition to a four-day week with no loss of payu003cbr>* Accelerate the roll-out of the new Scottish Child Payment and double it to £20 per week per childu003cbr>* Increase grants for new born children in low income families and school clothing grants by £100u003cbr>* Give funds to local authorities so they can introduce grants to mitigate the effects of the benefit cap”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Invest £500m each year to ensure heating homes and buildings meets climate goals u003cbr>* Introduce green heat grants for households to replace fossil fuel boilers with green alternatives, principally heat pumps, with the aim of installing 500,000 by 2030, and ban new fossil fuel boilers from 2025 for buildings off the gas grid, and 2028 for all buildingsu003cbr>* Establish a regulator for the private rented sector and ban winter evictionsu003cbr>* Support the building of 120,000 homes by 2032 – 70% of which should be for social rent – and invest in innovative public housing for older peopleu003cbr>* End homelessness”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* Cease funding road building projects that add capacity to the network and redirect funds toward safety improvements, maintenance of existing existing infrastructure, public transport, cycling and walking u003cbr>* Invest in cycling, walking so everyone in towns and cities to be able to get what they need within a 15-minute walku003cbr>* Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2026 and introduce workplace parking levies, congestion and parking charges, and a 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas u003cbr>* Bring the rail network, bus companies and ferry routes into public ownership”,”party_4_issue_12″:”* Abolish the not proven verdictu003cbr>* Reform prisons, including more funding for alternatives to custody and special provisions for offenders who are mentally ill and for women who are pregnant or have young childrenu003cbr>* Support full integration of British Transport Police with Police Scotlandu003cbr>* Provide legal aid to all domestic abuse victims including in civil cases, decriminalise sex work, increase funding for Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland and make funding available to the human trafficking awareness group TARA”,”party_5″:”Scottish Liberal Democrats”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.scotlibdems.org.uk”,”party_5_colour”:”#EFAC18″,”party_5_leader_1″:”Willie Rennie”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Put recovery first from the pandemic u003cbr>* An education bounce back plan u003cbr>* Train more mental health specialists for community centres, hospitals, workplaces and schools u003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with a green jobs revolution u003cbr>* Oppose a second independence referendum, given there’s a pandemic”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* Put education at the heart of the recovery from Covid u003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staffu003cbr>* A public inquiry to learn the lessons of the pandemic for the future”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendum u003cbr>* Work to reform the UK to a federal future”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* A new fiscal framework to ensure local councils get a fair share of the budgetru003cbr>* New pay audits to ensure fair opportunities for people from ethnic minorities and disabled people ru003cbr>* Scottish workers given the best chance to manufacture offshore wind turbinesru003cbr>* Increase the range of jobs and careers available to people in rural areas”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* A programme to help children bounce back in education including an expansion of outdoor learning, increased provision of school trips and new support assistantsu003cbr>* Play-based education until age seven based on the Nordic modelu003cbr>* The legal right to defer Primary 1 and have it replaced with funded early learning and childcare starting this Augustu003cbr>* Every qualified teacher guaranteed a job with a minimum starting salary of £30,000, as well as a review of workloads and career opportunities for existing teachersu003cbr>* End national testing of five year olds”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* An urgent plan to put recovery first for the NHSru003cbr>* A bigger range of specialists, diagnosis and treatment in local communitiesru003cbr>* A target of 15% of new health spending going to mental health and train more mental health specialists, including a grant of £5,000 for students undertaking counselling coursesru003cbr>* Treat drug misuse as a health problem rather than prosecuting those who experience it ru003cbr>* Promote preventative health to take the pressure off the NHSru003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staff”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Support a close relationship with Europe”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Move one million homes to zero emission heating by 2030u003cbr>* Invest in low carbon heat networksu003cbr>* Double the programmes to end fuel povertyu003cbr>* Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industryu003cbr>* New national parks, and new woodlands close to where people live”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Develop a system of Universal Basic Incomeu003cbr>* A job guarantee for 16-24 year oldsu003cbr>* 2,000 paid graduate internships with small businessesu003cbr>* New £5,000 Scottish Training Bonds to help people change careers”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 affordable homes to help address homelessnessu003cbr>* Help to Renovate loans to bring derelict homes back into use”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Reopen railway lines and move away from fossil fuels on the networku003cbr>* Give the public confidence in electric vehicles by progress towards a network of well-maintained rapid chargersu003cbr>* Support active travel, making it easier to make safe journeys by bike or on footu003cbr>* Create single through-tickets and swipe cards that work for buses, trains and ferries across Scotlandu003cbr>* New local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services”,”party_5_issue_12″:”* Increase the influence of communities over the way they are policed and give Police Scotland more support u003cbr>* Improve rehabilitation services for people leaving prison so they are less likely to re-offend u003cbr>* Get more mental health support workers alongside the policeu003cbr>* Reform Fatal Accident Inquiries to stop delays and learn the lessons more quickly u003cbr>* Establish a cross-party commission to recommend urgent steps to prevent violence against women and girls”,”party_6″:”Alba”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.albaparty.org/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_backup_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Alex Salmond”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* Independence for Scotland as an immediate necessity, and overwhelming priority, achieved by democratic means through a vote of people resident in Scotlandu003cbr>* The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr>* The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* Set up a powerful independent inquiry to find out what Scotland must learn from its successes and mistakes during Covid”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Aims to achieve a “supermajority” of pro-independence MSPs in the election to deliver an overwhelming Scottish Parliamentary vote to begin negotiations on independence.u003cbr>* Pressure the new Scottish government to immediately start negotiations with Westminster on another referendum and the terms of independence, and lay a motion at Holyrood to deliver this instruction ru003cbr>* Include a formal demand for a section 30 order in the negotiating position ru003cbr>* If a section 30 order is refused, call for the Scottish government to urgently pass a referendum bill and be ready to fight it in the courts if need be ru003cbr>* Set up an independence commission to consider how to build an independent Scotlandru003cbr>* Propose a written constitution and a new Scottish currency to be introduced at an early date following independence with Sterling still used as a dual currency over a period of time”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Rebuild Scotland’s domestic business base by letting the Scottish National Investment bank access the global capitalu003cbr>* A major expansion of available capital from the Scottish National Investment Bank to offer finance from start-up companies emerging from universities and collegesu003cbr>* Mobilise capital through the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance socially rented housing and other key infrastructure projectsu003cbr>* Reframe public sector purchasing and procurement to favour Scottish and locally based business u003cbr>* Introduce a development land tax in Scotland, with carefully calibrated exemptions to protect Scotland’s farming community but aimed at bringing assets, currently hoarded, into productive use”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Double the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for nursery, primary and secondary pupils using high quality Scottish produce centrally purchased with menus devised by leading Scottish chefs and nutritionists – every week of the yearu003cbr>* A “bonfire of paperwork” for teachers to free them of bureaucracy and allow them to focus on teaching u003cbr>* Extra support for learning and behaviour support to help pupils recover from the pandemic u003cbr>* Sports and gym facilities to be provided free to the under 18s”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Build a new generation of world-class modern care homes which are better and safer for residents and more efficient in running costsru003cbr>* To bring forward and invest in a catch-up programme for all the NHS activity which was cancelled because of Covid ru003cbr>* A mental health recovery plan, recognising the impact of the pandemic on the mental wellbeing of the nationru003cbr>* To streamline management structures in the NHS and create greater frontline staff involvement in management”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* A proposal for Scotland to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and through EFTA admission to the European Economic Area while maintaining the Common Travel Area and potentially a customs union with the rest of the UKu003cbr>* This would serve as either an interim position from which to negotiate EU membership or a long term proposal depending on the view of the Scottish people.”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Create a Scottish National Renewables Corporation to finance the transition from a carbon based economy, and give the SNRC an automatic shareholding of all licensed energy projects of 30 MW and aboveu003cbr>* The Scottish National Renewables Corporation will make sure that this time a far greater proportion of those major wind farms will embrace public and community ownership and that many more of the components from which they’re built are made in Scotlandu003cbr>* Major programme to reinsulate houses u003cbr>* Commission a roadmap on how Scotland will electrify its transport network u003cbr>* Support the transition away from fossil fuels by replacing corporation tax with a wellhead production tax on the offshore oil industry”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Campaign for WASPI womenru003cbr>* Introduce a £500 annual payment to all low-income households ru003cbr>* Introduce a legal right to food to make tackling food poverty a legally enforceable requirement for public agencies”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Set up a Scottish national housing company to build houses to high standards including high environmental standards ru003cbr>* Buy land at the best price so the houses can be made available for the lowest possible rentru003cbr>* Build a major retraining programme into the heart of the Housing Company to train people in Scotland to fill the gaps in the construction workforce, and build the houses out of Scottish timber”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Modernise and expand domestic ferry services u003cbr>* Fund transitioning Scotland’s taxi fleet to electric vehicles, and bring the level of grant provided to taxi drivers at least in line with Northern Ireland”,”party_6_issue_12″:”* Give women the right to maintain their sex based protections as set out in the Equality Act 2010″,”party_7″:”All for Unity”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.alliance4unity.uk”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_backup_colour”:””,”party_7_lead_candidate_1″:”George Galloway”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* Stand up to the SNP against Scottish independence u003cbr>* Seek to form a government of ‘national unity’ in favour of the Union u003cbr>* Work with any and all pro-Union parties to stop nationalists from holding a second independence referendum”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* Scotland needs time to rebuild after the pandemic and Brexitu003cbr>* Introduce a personalised tutoring and mentoring programme to help pupils catch up after Covid u003cbr>* Emergency funding for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical NHS operations”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* A Clarity Act to set down the conditions for granting another referendum and the rules for holding itu003cbr>* No referendum unless a majority of all Scottish adults vote for pro-independence parties in the electionu003cbr>* All Scots living elsewhere in the UK should be eligible to vote in any referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Scottish regions who vote No in a referendum should have the choice of remaining in the UK or joining the new independent Scotlandu003cbr>* Scottish government should be renamed as the Scottish Executive and more powers should be devolved to the regions”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Reverse the trend of declining inward investment in Scotland by providing a strong voice within UK initiatives and using trade missions within the FCO and British Councilu003cbr>* Create a Small Business Recovery unit to safeguard small business interestsu003cbr>* Scrap the Scottish National Investment Bank and the Scottish National Infrastructure Company”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Develop national interventions for addressing the attainment gapu003cbr>* Introduce individualised tutoring and mentoring programmes to help pupils catch up after Covidu003cbr>* A Scottish education recovery programme, putting literacy and numeracy at the centre of the learning process againu003cbr>* Giving Scottish schools more autonomy like their English counterpartsu003cbr>* Replace Education Scotland with an independent inspectorate, reform the SQA and radically overhaul the Curriculum for Excellence”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Emergency funding and organisational prioritisation for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical operationsu003cbr>* Increase the number of students in Scottish medical schools who are domiciled in Scotlandu003cbr>* Increase recruitment and retention in general practiceu003cbr>* Increase the provision of mental health services for all, particularly young peopleu003cbr>* Give carer workers a reasonable wage to stop high turnover and make caring a rewarding careeru003cbr>* Increase funding for drug rehabilitation centres”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Resist any attempt to remove Scotland from the European Convention on Human Rights”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* A pause in the afforestation of the uplands to put in place robust legislation that protects Scotland’s iconic heather moorlandsu003cbr>* Encourage regenerative agriculture and encourage farmers to transition to carbon-neutral grazing systemsu003cbr>* Campaign for discrete continental-style cycle lanes to be incorporated into any new developmentu003cbr>* Force retailers to use biodegradable packaging unless a clear need for plastic can be proven”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* An independent commission to examine optimal tax rates and make recommendationsu003cbr>* Skills funding should be more aligned to industry need”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Push for any quantative easing by the Treasury to be used to fund projects to increase the housing stocku003cbr>* Encourage the building of new, low-cost starter homesu003cbr>* Campaign for more high street shops to be turned back into housing to regenerate communities in town and city centresu003cbr>* End homelessness by allowing local authorities to convert empty town centre shops into hostels”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* A review of the country’s major road network with a view to supporting fishing, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, manufacturing and heavy engineeringu003cbr>* Improve the A82, dual the A1 from Edinburgh to the Border and find a solution to landslides on the Rest and Be Thankfulu003cbr>* A road link between the Mull of Galloway and Northern Ireland and upgrade the A75 to strengthen the economy of the south of Scotlandu003cbr>* An urgent review of ferry services in the west of Scotland”,”party_7_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Billu003cbr>* Remove all political links from the role of Lord Advocateu003cbr>* Verdicts in Scottish courts would be changed to “proven” or “not proven”u003cbr>* Make Police Scotland locally accountable again by having a chief constable in every former constabulary area”,”party_8″:”Freedom Alliance”,”party_8_website”:”https://freedomalliance.co.uk”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_backup_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Carol Dobson”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Oppose the government lockdown restrictionsu003cbr>* Oppose any and all curtailments of the liberties and human rights of free individualsu003cbr>* Reduce the role of the state in the management of our livesu003cbr>* Government should be devolved and decentralised to the smallest practicable level and direct democracy should be utilised to return decision making to the people”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Closing down the country in response to a coronavirus is a dramatic and completely unnecessary overreactionu003cbr>* Quarantining the country is not the way to deal with the virusu003cbr>* It is not the government’s place to impose health measures on the populaceu003cbr>* People should have the absolute right to leave home whenever they choose, to make a living and operate business premisesu003cbr>* Opposed to the compulsory use of facemasks in schools, and to the idea of vaccination mandates or “vaccine passports””,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Freedom Alliance MSPs will abstain on any vote on IndyRef2 in the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Should IndyRef2 happen Freedom Alliance MSPs and members will be free to campaign on whichever side they choose”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Seek to introduce legislation to more effectively tax big online corporationsu003cbr>* A levy a Covid-19 ‘windfall tax’ on the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturersu003cbr>* End the immunity from prosecution granted to the pharmaceutical industry by the UK governmentu003cbr>* End deficit spending at the UK government level. All government expenditure should be financed by tax receipts.”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* A multi-faceted approach to help children regain the ground lost over the last year through post-school education in vocational courses and apprenticeships and also via decreased pupil to teacher ratiosu003cbr>* The additional teaching staff required to be recruited from retired teachers, former teaching assistants or people currently undergoing teacher training. u003cbr>* Oppose any more school, further and higher education institution closures and instead push for a permanent return to face-to-face teaching. u003cbr>* Oppose any moves towards mask mandates, mandatory Covid-19 testing or “vaccine passports”. The party will ensure to the best of its ability that all pupils, students and parents are fully informed of all the issues relating to masks and Covid-19 testing and that the measures are voluntary.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate what has happened in care homes, the NHS and corridors of power since the beginning of 2020u003cbr>* Push for more funding for scientific studies aimed at finding ways to improve the nations’ health via natural and alternative means to expand upon existing recommendations regarding eating a balanced diet and taking enough exercise in the fresh airu003cbr>* Significant increases in Vitamin D3 testing with appropriate management and supplementation”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Respects the democratic will of the British people and accepts the result of the 2016 Brexit referendumu003cbr>* Will seek to build relationships and alliances with elected representatives from EU member states and countries around the world opposed to the disproportionate lockdown measures being imposed upon the people of their nations”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* Oppose any further extensions of the furlough scheme and the costly propping up of non-viable jobs and businessesu003cbr>* Reach out to concerned and like-minded experts, business leaders and stakeholders willing to help us find the best way forward to create viable jobs and rebuild our shattered economy”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Fight to regain Scots’ basic human right to unfettered freedom of movement within the UKu003cbr>* Try to enable Scots to travel abroad without requiring “vaccine passports” or Covid-19 tests”,”party_8_issue_12″:”* Policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9″:”Reform UK”,”party_9_website”:”https://reformuk.scot”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_backup_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Michelle Ballantyne”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Return of Freedomsu003cbr>* Restart the Economy u003cbr>* Restore Education Standards u003cbr>* Rebuild the NHSu003cbr>* Reform Holyrood”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* No more lockdownsu003cbr>* No domestic vaccine passports”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendumu003cbr>* Full audited review of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish government u003cbr>* Devolve further powers to local government”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* A costed radical plan for economic reform that will make Scots up to £1,500 better offu003cbr>* Scrap Air Passenger Dutyu003cbr>* Raise income tax threshold to £20,000″,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum for Excellence and return direction of learning to teachersu003cbr>* Champion play-based learning for early yearsu003cbr>* Introduce a curriculum that will give equal weight to academic and vocational learning”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Create an NHS Reserve Force that works similar to Army reservesu003cbr>* Put the priority on standards of patient care and job satisfaction”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Seize all opportunities that Brexit will present”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Act”,”party_10″:”Scottish Family Party”,”party_10_website”:”https://scottishfamily.org”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_backup_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Richard Lucas”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Support stable family life as family instability currently fuels a host of social problemsu003cbr>* Promote marriage as a means of strengthening families, through education, the tax system and wider cultureu003cbr>* Protect the lives of the unborn from the ongoing tragedy of abortion, and the elderly from the pressure of assisted suicideu003cbr>* Protect our basic freedoms, including freedom of speechu003cbr>* Restore high standards to education”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* A swift return to full normality, with the permanent lifting of all lockdown restrictions”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* Neutral on the benefits or otherwise of Scottish independence. u003cbr>* Oppose a referendum in the next parliament because more time needs to pass since the last one and pandemic recovery necessitates a period of stability”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Boost the economy by removing all Covid restrictions to allow businesses to flourish again”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum or Excellence and replace it with a clear academic curriculumu003cbr>* Maintain exams as an objective and fair measure of attainmentu003cbr>* Empower teachers to maintain good discipline, using effective punishments where necessaryu003cbr>* End indoctrination into left wing/liberal/progressive political causes in schoolsu003cbr>* Replace “vulgar and corrupting” sex education with facts-based lessons presenting positive moral principles. u003cbr>* Stop teaching transgender ideology”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* A well-funded and efficiently managed NHSu003cbr>* Stop all transgender “treatments” for under 16su003cbr>* Medical confidentiality and decision-making powers at 16 instead of the current 12 years oldu003cbr>* Addiction treatments focusing on cure rather than perpetual managementu003cbr>* Council tax relief for families taking elderly relatives into their own home”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Neutral on membership of the EU, but respect the result of the 2016 referendum”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Conserve the natural beauty of Scotland, its flora and faunau003cbr>* Practical, sustainable and carefully costed measures to tackle carbon emissionsu003cbr>* Every means of energy generation should be considered on its merits and none dismissed on ideological grounds”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Remove the discrimination against full time parents currently embodied in the tax and benefits system, helping families to choose the work/home balance that they desireu003cbr>* Oppose social engineering to close the gender pay gapu003cbr>* Support meritocracy, not quotas or other such unfair and discriminatory employment practices”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* Enable families to buy their own homes by encouraging more new family housing developments on brownfield sites”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Cheap and efficient public transport alongside ongoing affordable car useu003cbr>* Extend safe cycleways by integration into pavement areasu003cbr>* Explore the potential of river transport on some of Scotland’s great waterways”,”party_10_issue_12″:”* Stop the politicisation of the police as it undermines confidence in their impartialityu003cbr>* Police pursuing criminals instead of pedalling politically correct slogans and attempting to ensure people are being kind on Twitter. u003cbr>* Just sentences: there should be a punitive and deterrent element in sentencingu003cbr>* Protect the identity of the accused until charges are brought, at the earliest”,”party_11″:”UKIP”,”party_11_website”:”https://www.ukip.org/scotland”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_backup_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Donald Mackay”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendumsu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Actu003cbr>* Create a business scheme to allow veterans to set up their own business”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Covid-19 policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendums”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Economy policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Education policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* NHS and care policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* EU relations policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_12″:”* Crime policies will be added as they are announced”},”englishVocab”:{“choose_issue”:”What are the parties promising you?”,”choose_issue_sub”:”Select an issue and a party to see their policies”,”expand_all”:”Expand all”,”collapse_all”:”Collapse all”,”leader_heading”:”Leader”,”leader_heading_plural”:”Leaders”,”lead_candidate_heading”:”Lead candidate”,”pledges_heading”:”Main policies”,”change_issue”:”Change issue”,”devolved_message”:”This issue is u003cb> devolved or partly 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rights.”,”issue_10_devolved”:”0″,”issue_10_link”:””,”issue_10_link_message”:””,”issue_11″:”Transport”,”issue_11_title”:”Transport”,”issue_11_subtitle”:””,”issue_11_description”:”Covering rail ownership and franchising, bus services, and road upgrades.”,”issue_11_devolved”:”0″,”issue_11_link”:””,”issue_11_link_message”:””,”issue_12″:”Justice”,”issue_12_title”:”Justice”,”issue_12_subtitle”:””,”issue_12_description”:”Including police and prisons, drug policy, preventing crime, sentencing, and rights.”,”issue_12_devolved”:”0″,”issue_12_link”:””,”issue_12_link_message”:””,”party_1″:”Scottish National Party”,”party_1_website”:”https://www.snp.org”,”party_1_colour”:”#F8ED2E”,”party_1_backup_colour”:”#E5C403″,”party_1_leader_1″:”Nicola Sturgeon”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* Hold a second referendum on Scottish independence after the Covid crisis is overu003cbr>* Build 100,000 new homes by 2032, with at least 70% of these being for social rentu003cbr>* Launch a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear weapons u003cbr>* Provide ScotRail services within the public sector”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Make independence an essential priority for Scotland’s recovery from coronavirusu003cbr>* Keep robust travel restrictions and quarantine measures in place for as long as necessary, however open up and support international travel as soon as it safe to do sou003cbr>* Deliver a programme of booster vaccinations later this yearu003cbr>* Commission a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Hold a referendum once the pandemic ends if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* Invest over £33bn over the next five years in infrastructure and £1bn in the Scottish National Investment Bank. Found a new National Infrastructure Company to manage public assets. u003cbr>* Create a £25m fund to help drive tourism recoveryu003cbr>* Offer £50m in funding to the winning proposal of a competition for economic transformation, as part of the delivery of a new 10-year strategyu003cbr>* Create a new £20m Rural Entrepreneur Fund – providing grants of up to £10,000 to support the relocation or creation of 2,000 new businessesu003cbr>* Increase investment in private sector-led research and development projects by £100m over the next five yearsu003cbr>* Invest an additional £500m to support new jobs and reskill people for the jobs of the future over the next parliament.”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Invest a further £1bn to close the school attainment gap and recruit 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistantsu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for primary school pupils all year and for all children in state-funded special schoolsu003cbr>* Provide every child with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use itu003cbr>* Fund the Young Person’s Guarantee of a university, college, apprenticeship, training place or job for every young person u003cbr>* Build a childcare system which provides care before and after school all year round, free for the least well-off familiesu003cbr>* Scrap charges for school trips and practical activities for less well-off families, and increase the school uniform grant to at least £120 in primary and £150 in secondary”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% to “support and renew” the NHS recovery, increasing funding of frontline services by over £2.5 billionu003cbr>* Increase social care investment by 25% which will back a the creation of a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Offer NHS staff a 4% average pay increase u003cbr>* Introduce a new national wage for care staff as well as national pay bargaining for the sectoru003cbr>* Increase direct investment into mental health services by at least 25% and ensure that in five years, 10% of the frontline NHS budget is invested in mental healthu003cbr>* Create a national pharmaceutical agency for the NHS to ensure secure and sustainable supply chains for vital medicines”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Maintain and strengthen Scotland’s relationship with the EU with a view to rejoining as soon as possibleru003cbr>* Continue to advocate for Scotland’s inclusion in the Erasmus programme”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Decarbonise the heating of one million homes by 2030 with investment of £1.6bn over five yearsru003cbr>* Double the Climate Justice Fund to £24m over four yearsru003cbr>* Implement a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers next yearru003cbr>* Increase targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025ru003cbr>* Invest £100m in a green jobs fund to support new and more opportunities for green job creation”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Freeze Income Tax rates and bands and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation u003cbr>* Remove council tax for under 22su003cbr>* Begin work to deliver a minimum income guarantee – a social welfare system that ensures everyone has enough money to live on, but gives additional support to those who need it such as for childcare or disabilityu003cbr>* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per child per week and give families with children in receipt of free school meals a cash grant of £520 until the programme is fully rolled out. u003cbr>* Publish a new four-year delivery plan to lift children out of poverty, backed by a £50m fundu003cbr>* Explore the transition to a four-day-week with a £10m fund to allow companies to pilot and measure its benefits”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Invest £3.5bn to deliver 100,000 affordable homes by 2032u003cbr>* Support our communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoodsu003cbr>* Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulationu003cbr>* Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland’s rail services by 2035u003cbr>* Provide free bikes for all children of school age who cannot afford them, remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from public transport by 2023 and create a greener, more affordable railwayu003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22u003cbr>* Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling”,”party_1_issue_12″:”* Undertake a review of Scotland’s prosecution system u003cbr>* Ensure that every child victim/witness will have access to a safe space based on the European Barnahus Model by 2025 u003cbr>* Appoint a victims’ commissioner to provide an independent voice for victims and witnesses and review the provision of victim servicesu003cbr>* Establish a new multi-year £100m funding stream over three years to support frontline services and focus on prevention of violence against women and girls from school onwards”,”party_2″:”Scottish Conservatives”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”,”party_2_colour”:”#0575C9″,”party_2_leader_1″:”Douglas Ross”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr>* Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr>* A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr>* A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities”,”party_2_issue_2″:”* £600m to tackle the NHS backlog in 2021-22u003cbr>* £40m to NHS staff wellbeing this year including rest facilities and mental health servicesu003cbr>* £120m into a catch-up premium for every Scottish school pupilu003cbr>* Delay the introduction of any new non-Covid related regulations on businesses to April 2023u003cbr>* £500 for every Scottish adult to retrain for work each yearu003cbr>* Tougher sentences for fraud following an increase during the pandemic”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Oppose a second referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Give the Scottish Parliament the tools it needs to properly scrutinise governmentu003cbr>* Bring forward proposals to allow voters to recall MSPs in exceptional circumstancesu003cbr>* Support a freeze in MSP and ministerial pay for the next five yearsu003cbr>* Support a reduction in the Cabinet from 12 to six”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* Fund for full fibre broadband to every home by 2027u003cbr>* Introduce a 10-working day national standard for all business support grant applications to be processedu003cbr>* Maintain the poundage rate freeze until the 2023 revaluationu003cbr>* 25% rates relief to businesses in 2022-23 u003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Exporting Institute for trade expertiseu003cbr>* Scrap parking charges to encourage local shopping”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Allocate £1bn of attainment funding to all schools over five yearsu003cbr>* Oppose any cancellation of examsu003cbr>* Review the quality of teacher training and recruit 3,000 teachers over the next parliamentu003cbr>* Allow every primary school child to access a free school lunch and breakfastu003cbr>* Create a Rural Teacher Fund to attract teachers to work in rural areasu003cbr>* Introduce a dedicated STEM teacher in every primary schoolu003cbr>* Introduce a “subject guarantee” to pupils that allows them all to take at least seven subjects in S4″,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Increase annual NHS funding by at least £2bn by 2025-26, based on current estimatesu003cbr>* Increase medical school training in line with future need, prioritising people who live in Scotlandu003cbr>* Invest at least 11% of the overall NHS budget into general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Increase mental health funding to 10% of the frontline health budgetu003cbr>* Maintain local democratic accountability of the social care system and avoid “unnecessary” structural reformsu003cbr>* Review the provision of drug treatment and recovery services before the end of the year”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Create a “global Britain” now that the country has left the EUu003cbr>* Negotiate a deal with the UK government to decide the future of the fishing industry”,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a £25m Cleaner Seas Fund to take harmful products including plastics out of the seasu003cbr>* End peat extraction and aim to restore peatland to 20,000 hectares by 2024-25u003cbr>* Bring forward a new Animal Welfare Bill which would ban the use of electric shock collars and the sale of dogs with cropped earsu003cbr>* Create Scotland’s third national park in Gallowayu003cbr>* Bring forward a Circular Economy Bill to help Scotland achieve net-zero emissions by 2045u003cbr>* Support the UK government’s North Sea Transition Deal”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Use devolved powers to target “specific” groups in receipt of the UK government’s £20 per week increase to Universal Creditu003cbr>* Free school lunches and breakfasts for all children in primary schoolu003cbr>* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Introduce a taper rate to the Carer Allowance so that carers do not lose all of their allowance if they earn more than the limitu003cbr>* End rough sleeping by 2026 by investing £10.8m in a Housing First programmeu003cbr>* Create a government-owned company to give disabled people work experience and skills to help them secure long-term employment”,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 new affordable homes with 40,000 of these in the social rented sectoru003cbr>* Invest £50m in the Rural Housing Fundu003cbr>* £2.5bn over the next five years on energy efficiency in homes and buildingsu003cbr>* Introduce Compulsory Sales Orders for long-term unoccupied properties in Scotlandu003cbr>* Ban the use of combustible cladding in Scotlandu003cbr>* Permanently increase the threshold for paying Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) to £250,000″,”party_2_issue_11″:”* Rebuild local railways where it would make “economic sense”u003cbr>* Expand the M8 to three lanes and upgrade the whole A1 to a dual carriagewayu003cbr>* Invest £200m to repair potholesu003cbr>* Deliver a national charging infrastructure by 2025 for electric vehiclesu003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Smart Travel Card for passengers to use on all types of domestic transport in Scotlandu003cbr>* Scrap Caledonian Maritime Assets and introduce long-term contracts for ferry operators”,”party_2_issue_12″:”* Bring in a Victims Law which would include an end to the not proven verdict u003cbr>* Introduce a Local Policing Act which would include reinstating policy scrutiny boards across Scotlandu003cbr>* Double the maximum sentence for assaults on police and other emergency workers u003cbr>* Introduce whole-life sentences, end the presumption against short sentences and end automatic early releasesu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Bill and introduce a Protection of Free Speech Billu003cbr>* Revoke prisoners’ right to vote”,”party_3″:”Scottish Labour”,”party_3_website”:”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”,”party_3_colour”:”#E91D0E”,”party_3_leader_1″:”Anas Sarwar”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr>* Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr>* Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr>* Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas”,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Deliver a national plan for recovery that has five key themes: jobs recovery, NHS recovery, education recovery, community recovery and climate recovery”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr>* Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr>* Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr>* Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Guarantee job or training opportunities following the pandemic by investing in a national training fund and investing in Scotland’s infrastructure u003cbr>* Boost economic growth by repurposing Scottish Enterprise as a business recovery agency focussing on a restart fund and transition fundu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas and introduce specific programmes aimed at regenerating the high streetu003cbr>* Establish a Better Business Scotland certification scheme for businesses who want to work with the public sector to ensure they meet high standards, and make sure no publicly procured contract uses zero-hours contractsu003cbr>* Restructure the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide funding for new ideas, offer investment for “capital for good” projects and support businesses transition to green and digital futuresu003cbr>* Reduce business rates on non-grocery bricks and mortar shops, and set up a taskforce to fully examine how business rates need to change”,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Deliver an Education Comeback Plan, including a personal tutoring programme for all ages and all pupilsu003cbr>* A resit guarantee for pupils affected by the pandemic, with the offer of a free college place to take national qualificationsu003cbr>* Provide extra digital training for staff and a digital device for every pupil, and give targeted support to households without broadband u003cbr>* A guaranteed completion opportunity for probationary teachers to ensure that they can gain registration and help to refresh the workforceu003cbr>* Implement a minimum student incomeu003cbr>* A summer comeback programme focusing on sport, outdoor activities, mental health and wellbeingu003cbr>* Prioritise vaccinations for teaching and school staff”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* An NHS recovery plan that gets services back on track and prioritises cancer treatment and careu003cbr>* Establish rapid diagnostic centres so patients can have a diagnosis within two weeks u003cbr>* Increase the mental health budget to 11% of the NHS budget, to match spending in England and Wales, and establish dedicated mental health A&Es in every health board areau003cbr>* Improve access to mental health support with a new referral and triage service and ensure GPs have dedicated mental health workers u003cbr>* Create a national care service u003cbr>* A real pay rise for NHS staff and raising social carers’ pay to £15 an hour, with an immediate rise to £12u003cbr>* Set up baby clubs to support mums of babies born during the pandemic, offer an extra health visitor visit at 18 months, ensure women have help to breastfeed and support women with post-natal depression”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Develop as close a relationship with the EU as possible as part of a radical redesign of the UK’s democratic institutionsru003cbr>* Explore the need to reform the immigration system so that it works for all nations and regions in the UK now that the UK has left the EU”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* Invest in energy efficiency measures for buildings across Scotlandu003cbr>* A Just Transition focused on developing the skills needed in a green recovery and protecting jobs and communities impacted by the transition to net zerou003cbr>* Develop a coherent biodiversity action plan for post-2020 for land, air and seau003cbr>* Give interest-free government loans to help more low and middle income households buy electric cars over the next two years and accelerate the roll-out of electric charging points u003cbr>* Increase active travel spending to 10% of the overall transport budget, giving priority to encouraging and enabling people to get out of their cars, onto bikes, and walk more u003cbr>* Decarbonise Scotland’s railways within 15 years, focusing on electrification, and seek to make train journeys between Scotland’s cities faster than going by car”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week by the end of 2022 u003cbr>* Abolish the council tax and replace it with a fairer alternative based on property values and ability to payu003cbr>* A guaranteed public sector job for six months for every unemployed person under 25, unemployed disabled people not already on a job scheme, and the long-term unemployed u003cbr>* Create a new £500 retraining grant for people who are unemployed or on furlough, without affecting existing payments, and an extra £750 in income support for unemployed people in training.u003cbr>* Bring shoppers back to town centres with a £75 prepaid card to every adult in Scotland to be spent in non-food retail businessesu003cbr>* Roll out government funded subsidies for holiday accommodation across Scotland giving tourists every third night of accommodation free on off-peak dates”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Build 200,000 zero carbon social homes over 10 yearsu003cbr>* Create a National Housing Agency to end the housing crisis u003cbr>* Reform the law to allow for the acquisition of land for social housing at existing use value u003cbr>* Guarantee fair rents and improve tenants’ rights in the private rented sector u003cbr>* Support people to own their own home, with specific support for young people and first-time buyers u003cbr>* End rough sleeping within the next five years”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Place railways back into public control and increase rail connectivity between smaller towns and villages by reopening stations and restoring neglected serviceu003cbr>* Give councils authority to directly run local bus services u003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to under 25s, with a long-term goal of universal free bus travelu003cbr>* Create neighbourhoods where people can access all the services they need within a 20-minute walku003cbr>* Bring all lifeline ferry services into public hands – with investment in a new fleet of ships fit for the future – and make ferry travel free for under 25s”,”party_3_issue_12″:”* Restore the connections between the police force and local communities and end further centralisationu003cbr>* Invest in specialist staff to rebalance the workforce and increase the number of officers in local divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr>* Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr>* Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr>* Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court”,”party_4″:”Scottish Greens”,”party_4_website”:”https://greens.scot”,”party_4_colour”:”#5FB25F”,”party_4_leader_1″:”Patrick Harvie”,”party_4_leader_2″:”Lorna Slater”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* A fair and green recovery from the pandemicu003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with direct investment in transport, warm homes and renewable energyu003cbr>* Re-join the European Union as an independent country”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Introduce a universal isolation grant to support people isolating because of an infectious disease such as Covid-19u003cbr>* Launch a public inquiry into the Scottish government’s response to the Covid pandemicu003cbr>* Develop robust PPE procurement and ensure fair access to treatment and rehabilitation for people with long Covidu003cbr>* Use a one-off windfall tax on profits made by larger companies as a result of the pandemic to rebalance the economy and support recovery”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next parliamentary term, and build the Green Yes campaignu003cbr>* Encourage further devolution of powers from Westminster to Holyrood such as energy and employment lawsu003cbr>* In the event of Scottish independence, introduce taxes on the wealthiest members of society, luxury goods and carbon emissions from corporations”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Phase in a four-day working weeku003cbr>* Introduce a 1% annual “millionaires tax” on wealth and assets above £1m – including property, land, pensions and other assetsu003cbr>* Scrap council tax and replace it with a residential property tax related to property valueu003cbr>* Support the partial replacement of corporation tax at the UK level with a carbon tax that increases over time in line with our climate targetsu003cbr>* Replace air passenger duty with a frequent flyer levy, where passengers pay increasing sums for flights after their first return in 12 months – but excluding domestic flights in the Highlands and islands”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Introduce year-round free school meals for all pupils including breakfast u003cbr>* Recruit 5,500 additional permanent teachers and 2,500 more additional needs teachers, and reduce class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupilsu003cbr>* Make an extra year of funding available for students who need it, for example those who need to repeat a year because of the pandemicu003cbr>* Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a kindergarten stage for three to six year oldsu003cbr>* End P1-S3 Scottish National Standardised Assessments and end homework in primary schools. In secondary schools, expand continuous assessment of coursework and reduce the role of exams.”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Commit at least 11% of health spending to general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Give 10% of frontline health spend to mental health and put £161m into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by 2026u003cbr>* Introduce “safe and compassionate” laws that allow terminally ill adults the right to an assisted deathu003cbr>* End competitive tendering in the care systemu003cbr>* Remove the rule that two doctors must approve abortions and retain the provision for abortions at home introduced during the pandemic”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Campaign with the support of the European Green Party to re-join the EU as an independent nationru003cbr>* Re-join the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programmeru003cbr>* Establish low carbon transport connections with Europe”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Source at least 70% of the onshore wind supply chain domesticallyu003cbr>* Invest in marine renewables and give financial support for innovation and to support early stage tidal turbines u003cbr>* Call on the UK government to stop issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration and development and end subsidies and tax breaks for the industryu003cbr>* Ban the importation of shale and fracked gas for processing in Scotland, and ensure the Scottish government can deliver the transition to net-zero u003cbr>* Introduce Low Emission Zones with immediate effect in all areas that breach air quality limits”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Introduce a Universal Basic Income pilot by negotiating the necessary powers from Westminster – and if refused, fund smaller-scale, more limited pilots that do not require powersu003cbr>* Support the transition to a four-day week with no loss of payu003cbr>* Accelerate the roll-out of the new Scottish Child Payment and double it to £20 per week per childu003cbr>* Increase grants for new born children in low income families and school clothing grants by £100u003cbr>* Give funds to local authorities so they can introduce grants to mitigate the effects of the benefit cap”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Invest £500m each year to ensure heating homes and buildings meets climate goals u003cbr>* Introduce green heat grants for households to replace fossil fuel boilers with green alternatives, principally heat pumps, with the aim of installing 500,000 by 2030, and ban new fossil fuel boilers from 2025 for buildings off the gas grid, and 2028 for all buildingsu003cbr>* Establish a regulator for the private rented sector and ban winter evictionsu003cbr>* Support the building of 120,000 homes by 2032 – 70% of which should be for social rent – and invest in innovative public housing for older peopleu003cbr>* End homelessness”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* Cease funding road building projects that add capacity to the network and redirect funds toward safety improvements, maintenance of existing existing infrastructure, public transport, cycling and walking u003cbr>* Invest in cycling, walking so everyone in towns and cities to be able to get what they need within a 15-minute walku003cbr>* Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2026 and introduce workplace parking levies, congestion and parking charges, and a 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas u003cbr>* Bring the rail network, bus companies and ferry routes into public ownership”,”party_4_issue_12″:”* Abolish the not proven verdictu003cbr>* Reform prisons, including more funding for alternatives to custody and special provisions for offenders who are mentally ill and for women who are pregnant or have young childrenu003cbr>* Support full integration of British Transport Police with Police Scotlandu003cbr>* Provide legal aid to all domestic abuse victims including in civil cases, decriminalise sex work, increase funding for Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland and make funding available to the human trafficking awareness group TARA”,”party_5″:”Scottish Liberal Democrats”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.scotlibdems.org.uk”,”party_5_colour”:”#EFAC18″,”party_5_leader_1″:”Willie Rennie”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Put recovery first from the pandemic u003cbr>* An education bounce back plan u003cbr>* Train more mental health specialists for community centres, hospitals, workplaces and schools u003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with a green jobs revolution u003cbr>* Oppose a second independence referendum, given there’s a pandemic”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* Put education at the heart of the recovery from Covid u003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staffu003cbr>* A public inquiry to learn the lessons of the pandemic for the future”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendum u003cbr>* Work to reform the UK to a federal future”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* A new fiscal framework to ensure local councils get a fair share of the budgetru003cbr>* New pay audits to ensure fair opportunities for people from ethnic minorities and disabled people ru003cbr>* Scottish workers given the best chance to manufacture offshore wind turbinesru003cbr>* Increase the range of jobs and careers available to people in rural areas”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* A programme to help children bounce back in education including an expansion of outdoor learning, increased provision of school trips and new support assistantsu003cbr>* Play-based education until age seven based on the Nordic modelu003cbr>* The legal right to defer Primary 1 and have it replaced with funded early learning and childcare starting this Augustu003cbr>* Every qualified teacher guaranteed a job with a minimum starting salary of £30,000, as well as a review of workloads and career opportunities for existing teachersu003cbr>* End national testing of five year olds”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* An urgent plan to put recovery first for the NHSru003cbr>* A bigger range of specialists, diagnosis and treatment in local communitiesru003cbr>* A target of 15% of new health spending going to mental health and train more mental health specialists, including a grant of £5,000 for students undertaking counselling coursesru003cbr>* Treat drug misuse as a health problem rather than prosecuting those who experience it ru003cbr>* Promote preventative health to take the pressure off the NHSru003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staff”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Support a close relationship with Europe”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Move one million homes to zero emission heating by 2030u003cbr>* Invest in low carbon heat networksu003cbr>* Double the programmes to end fuel povertyu003cbr>* Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industryu003cbr>* New national parks, and new woodlands close to where people live”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Develop a system of Universal Basic Incomeu003cbr>* A job guarantee for 16-24 year oldsu003cbr>* 2,000 paid graduate internships with small businessesu003cbr>* New £5,000 Scottish Training Bonds to help people change careers”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 affordable homes to help address homelessnessu003cbr>* Help to Renovate loans to bring derelict homes back into use”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Reopen railway lines and move away from fossil fuels on the networku003cbr>* Give the public confidence in electric vehicles by progress towards a network of well-maintained rapid chargersu003cbr>* Support active travel, making it easier to make safe journeys by bike or on footu003cbr>* Create single through-tickets and swipe cards that work for buses, trains and ferries across Scotlandu003cbr>* New local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services”,”party_5_issue_12″:”* Increase the influence of communities over the way they are policed and give Police Scotland more support u003cbr>* Improve rehabilitation services for people leaving prison so they are less likely to re-offend u003cbr>* Get more mental health support workers alongside the policeu003cbr>* Reform Fatal Accident Inquiries to stop delays and learn the lessons more quickly u003cbr>* Establish a cross-party commission to recommend urgent steps to prevent violence against women and girls”,”party_6″:”Alba”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.albaparty.org/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_backup_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Alex Salmond”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* Independence for Scotland as an immediate necessity, and overwhelming priority, achieved by democratic means through a vote of people resident in Scotlandu003cbr>* The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr>* The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* Set up a powerful independent inquiry to find out what Scotland must learn from its successes and mistakes during Covid”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Aims to achieve a “supermajority” of pro-independence MSPs in the election to deliver an overwhelming Scottish Parliamentary vote to begin negotiations on independence.u003cbr>* Pressure the new Scottish government to immediately start negotiations with Westminster on another referendum and the terms of independence, and lay a motion at Holyrood to deliver this instruction ru003cbr>* Include a formal demand for a section 30 order in the negotiating position ru003cbr>* If a section 30 order is refused, call for the Scottish government to urgently pass a referendum bill and be ready to fight it in the courts if need be ru003cbr>* Set up an independence commission to consider how to build an independent Scotlandru003cbr>* Propose a written constitution and a new Scottish currency to be introduced at an early date following independence with Sterling still used as a dual currency over a period of time”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Rebuild Scotland’s domestic business base by letting the Scottish National Investment bank access the global capitalu003cbr>* A major expansion of available capital from the Scottish National Investment Bank to offer finance from start-up companies emerging from universities and collegesu003cbr>* Mobilise capital through the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance socially rented housing and other key infrastructure projectsu003cbr>* Reframe public sector purchasing and procurement to favour Scottish and locally based business u003cbr>* Introduce a development land tax in Scotland, with carefully calibrated exemptions to protect Scotland’s farming community but aimed at bringing assets, currently hoarded, into productive use”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Double the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for nursery, primary and secondary pupils using high quality Scottish produce centrally purchased with menus devised by leading Scottish chefs and nutritionists – every week of the yearu003cbr>* A “bonfire of paperwork” for teachers to free them of bureaucracy and allow them to focus on teaching u003cbr>* Extra support for learning and behaviour support to help pupils recover from the pandemic u003cbr>* Sports and gym facilities to be provided free to the under 18s”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Build a new generation of world-class modern care homes which are better and safer for residents and more efficient in running costsru003cbr>* To bring forward and invest in a catch-up programme for all the NHS activity which was cancelled because of Covid ru003cbr>* A mental health recovery plan, recognising the impact of the pandemic on the mental wellbeing of the nationru003cbr>* To streamline management structures in the NHS and create greater frontline staff involvement in management”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* A proposal for Scotland to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and through EFTA admission to the European Economic Area while maintaining the Common Travel Area and potentially a customs union with the rest of the UKu003cbr>* This would serve as either an interim position from which to negotiate EU membership or a long term proposal depending on the view of the Scottish people.”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Create a Scottish National Renewables Corporation to finance the transition from a carbon based economy, and give the SNRC an automatic shareholding of all licensed energy projects of 30 MW and aboveu003cbr>* The Scottish National Renewables Corporation will make sure that this time a far greater proportion of those major wind farms will embrace public and community ownership and that many more of the components from which they’re built are made in Scotlandu003cbr>* Major programme to reinsulate houses u003cbr>* Commission a roadmap on how Scotland will electrify its transport network u003cbr>* Support the transition away from fossil fuels by replacing corporation tax with a wellhead production tax on the offshore oil industry”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Campaign for WASPI womenru003cbr>* Introduce a £500 annual payment to all low-income households ru003cbr>* Introduce a legal right to food to make tackling food poverty a legally enforceable requirement for public agencies”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Set up a Scottish national housing company to build houses to high standards including high environmental standards ru003cbr>* Buy land at the best price so the houses can be made available for the lowest possible rentru003cbr>* Build a major retraining programme into the heart of the Housing Company to train people in Scotland to fill the gaps in the construction workforce, and build the houses out of Scottish timber”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Modernise and expand domestic ferry services u003cbr>* Fund transitioning Scotland’s taxi fleet to electric vehicles, and bring the level of grant provided to taxi drivers at least in line with Northern Ireland”,”party_6_issue_12″:”* Give women the right to maintain their sex based protections as set out in the Equality Act 2010″,”party_7″:”All for Unity”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.alliance4unity.uk”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_backup_colour”:””,”party_7_lead_candidate_1″:”George Galloway”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* Stand up to the SNP against Scottish independence u003cbr>* Seek to form a government of ‘national unity’ in favour of the Union u003cbr>* Work with any and all pro-Union parties to stop nationalists from holding a second independence referendum”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* Scotland needs time to rebuild after the pandemic and Brexitu003cbr>* Introduce a personalised tutoring and mentoring programme to help pupils catch up after Covid u003cbr>* Emergency funding for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical NHS operations”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* A Clarity Act to set down the conditions for granting another referendum and the rules for holding itu003cbr>* No referendum unless a majority of all Scottish adults vote for pro-independence parties in the electionu003cbr>* All Scots living elsewhere in the UK should be eligible to vote in any referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Scottish regions who vote No in a referendum should have the choice of remaining in the UK or joining the new independent Scotlandu003cbr>* Scottish government should be renamed as the Scottish Executive and more powers should be devolved to the regions”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Reverse the trend of declining inward investment in Scotland by providing a strong voice within UK initiatives and using trade missions within the FCO and British Councilu003cbr>* Create a Small Business Recovery unit to safeguard small business interestsu003cbr>* Scrap the Scottish National Investment Bank and the Scottish National Infrastructure Company”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Develop national interventions for addressing the attainment gapu003cbr>* Introduce individualised tutoring and mentoring programmes to help pupils catch up after Covidu003cbr>* A Scottish education recovery programme, putting literacy and numeracy at the centre of the learning process againu003cbr>* Giving Scottish schools more autonomy like their English counterpartsu003cbr>* Replace Education Scotland with an independent inspectorate, reform the SQA and radically overhaul the Curriculum for Excellence”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Emergency funding and organisational prioritisation for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical operationsu003cbr>* Increase the number of students in Scottish medical schools who are domiciled in Scotlandu003cbr>* Increase recruitment and retention in general practiceu003cbr>* Increase the provision of mental health services for all, particularly young peopleu003cbr>* Give carer workers a reasonable wage to stop high turnover and make caring a rewarding careeru003cbr>* Increase funding for drug rehabilitation centres”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Resist any attempt to remove Scotland from the European Convention on Human Rights”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* A pause in the afforestation of the uplands to put in place robust legislation that protects Scotland’s iconic heather moorlandsu003cbr>* Encourage regenerative agriculture and encourage farmers to transition to carbon-neutral grazing systemsu003cbr>* Campaign for discrete continental-style cycle lanes to be incorporated into any new developmentu003cbr>* Force retailers to use biodegradable packaging unless a clear need for plastic can be proven”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* An independent commission to examine optimal tax rates and make recommendationsu003cbr>* Skills funding should be more aligned to industry need”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Push for any quantative easing by the Treasury to be used to fund projects to increase the housing stocku003cbr>* Encourage the building of new, low-cost starter homesu003cbr>* Campaign for more high street shops to be turned back into housing to regenerate communities in town and city centresu003cbr>* End homelessness by allowing local authorities to convert empty town centre shops into hostels”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* A review of the country’s major road network with a view to supporting fishing, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, manufacturing and heavy engineeringu003cbr>* Improve the A82, dual the A1 from Edinburgh to the Border and find a solution to landslides on the Rest and Be Thankfulu003cbr>* A road link between the Mull of Galloway and Northern Ireland and upgrade the A75 to strengthen the economy of the south of Scotlandu003cbr>* An urgent review of ferry services in the west of Scotland”,”party_7_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Billu003cbr>* Remove all political links from the role of Lord Advocateu003cbr>* Verdicts in Scottish courts would be changed to “proven” or “not proven”u003cbr>* Make Police Scotland locally accountable again by having a chief constable in every former constabulary area”,”party_8″:”Freedom Alliance”,”party_8_website”:”https://freedomalliance.co.uk”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_backup_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Carol Dobson”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Oppose the government lockdown restrictionsu003cbr>* Oppose any and all curtailments of the liberties and human rights of free individualsu003cbr>* Reduce the role of the state in the management of our livesu003cbr>* Government should be devolved and decentralised to the smallest practicable level and direct democracy should be utilised to return decision making to the people”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Closing down the country in response to a coronavirus is a dramatic and completely unnecessary overreactionu003cbr>* Quarantining the country is not the way to deal with the virusu003cbr>* It is not the government’s place to impose health measures on the populaceu003cbr>* People should have the absolute right to leave home whenever they choose, to make a living and operate business premisesu003cbr>* Opposed to the compulsory use of facemasks in schools, and to the idea of vaccination mandates or “vaccine passports””,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Freedom Alliance MSPs will abstain on any vote on IndyRef2 in the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Should IndyRef2 happen Freedom Alliance MSPs and members will be free to campaign on whichever side they choose”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Seek to introduce legislation to more effectively tax big online corporationsu003cbr>* A levy a Covid-19 ‘windfall tax’ on the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturersu003cbr>* End the immunity from prosecution granted to the pharmaceutical industry by the UK governmentu003cbr>* End deficit spending at the UK government level. All government expenditure should be financed by tax receipts.”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* A multi-faceted approach to help children regain the ground lost over the last year through post-school education in vocational courses and apprenticeships and also via decreased pupil to teacher ratiosu003cbr>* The additional teaching staff required to be recruited from retired teachers, former teaching assistants or people currently undergoing teacher training. u003cbr>* Oppose any more school, further and higher education institution closures and instead push for a permanent return to face-to-face teaching. u003cbr>* Oppose any moves towards mask mandates, mandatory Covid-19 testing or “vaccine passports”. The party will ensure to the best of its ability that all pupils, students and parents are fully informed of all the issues relating to masks and Covid-19 testing and that the measures are voluntary.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate what has happened in care homes, the NHS and corridors of power since the beginning of 2020u003cbr>* Push for more funding for scientific studies aimed at finding ways to improve the nations’ health via natural and alternative means to expand upon existing recommendations regarding eating a balanced diet and taking enough exercise in the fresh airu003cbr>* Significant increases in Vitamin D3 testing with appropriate management and supplementation”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Respects the democratic will of the British people and accepts the result of the 2016 Brexit referendumu003cbr>* Will seek to build relationships and alliances with elected representatives from EU member states and countries around the world opposed to the disproportionate lockdown measures being imposed upon the people of their nations”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* Oppose any further extensions of the furlough scheme and the costly propping up of non-viable jobs and businessesu003cbr>* Reach out to concerned and like-minded experts, business leaders and stakeholders willing to help us find the best way forward to create viable jobs and rebuild our shattered economy”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Fight to regain Scots’ basic human right to unfettered freedom of movement within the UKu003cbr>* Try to enable Scots to travel abroad without requiring “vaccine passports” or Covid-19 tests”,”party_8_issue_12″:”* Policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9″:”Reform UK”,”party_9_website”:”https://reformuk.scot”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_backup_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Michelle Ballantyne”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Return of Freedomsu003cbr>* Restart the Economy u003cbr>* Restore Education Standards u003cbr>* Rebuild the NHSu003cbr>* Reform Holyrood”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* No more lockdownsu003cbr>* No domestic vaccine passports”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendumu003cbr>* Full audited review of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish government u003cbr>* Devolve further powers to local government”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* A costed radical plan for economic reform that will make Scots up to £1,500 better offu003cbr>* Scrap Air Passenger Dutyu003cbr>* Raise income tax threshold to £20,000″,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum for Excellence and return direction of learning to teachersu003cbr>* Champion play-based learning for early yearsu003cbr>* Introduce a curriculum that will give equal weight to academic and vocational learning”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Create an NHS Reserve Force that works similar to Army reservesu003cbr>* Put the priority on standards of patient care and job satisfaction”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Seize all opportunities that Brexit will present”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Act”,”party_10″:”Scottish Family Party”,”party_10_website”:”https://scottishfamily.org”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_backup_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Richard Lucas”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Support stable family life as family instability currently fuels a host of social problemsu003cbr>* Promote marriage as a means of strengthening families, through education, the tax system and wider cultureu003cbr>* Protect the lives of the unborn from the ongoing tragedy of abortion, and the elderly from the pressure of assisted suicideu003cbr>* Protect our basic freedoms, including freedom of speechu003cbr>* Restore high standards to education”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* A swift return to full normality, with the permanent lifting of all lockdown restrictions”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* Neutral on the benefits or otherwise of Scottish independence. u003cbr>* Oppose a referendum in the next parliament because more time needs to pass since the last one and pandemic recovery necessitates a period of stability”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Boost the economy by removing all Covid restrictions to allow businesses to flourish again”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum or Excellence and replace it with a clear academic curriculumu003cbr>* Maintain exams as an objective and fair measure of attainmentu003cbr>* Empower teachers to maintain good discipline, using effective punishments where necessaryu003cbr>* End indoctrination into left wing/liberal/progressive political causes in schoolsu003cbr>* Replace “vulgar and corrupting” sex education with facts-based lessons presenting positive moral principles. u003cbr>* Stop teaching transgender ideology”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* A well-funded and efficiently managed NHSu003cbr>* Stop all transgender “treatments” for under 16su003cbr>* Medical confidentiality and decision-making powers at 16 instead of the current 12 years oldu003cbr>* Addiction treatments focusing on cure rather than perpetual managementu003cbr>* Council tax relief for families taking elderly relatives into their own home”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Neutral on membership of the EU, but respect the result of the 2016 referendum”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Conserve the natural beauty of Scotland, its flora and faunau003cbr>* Practical, sustainable and carefully costed measures to tackle carbon emissionsu003cbr>* Every means of energy generation should be considered on its merits and none dismissed on ideological grounds”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Remove the discrimination against full time parents currently embodied in the tax and benefits system, helping families to choose the work/home balance that they desireu003cbr>* Oppose social engineering to close the gender pay gapu003cbr>* Support meritocracy, not quotas or other such unfair and discriminatory employment practices”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* Enable families to buy their own homes by encouraging more new family housing developments on brownfield sites”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Cheap and efficient public transport alongside ongoing affordable car useu003cbr>* Extend safe cycleways by integration into pavement areasu003cbr>* Explore the potential of river transport on some of Scotland’s great waterways”,”party_10_issue_12″:”* Stop the politicisation of the police as it undermines confidence in their impartialityu003cbr>* Police pursuing criminals instead of pedalling politically correct slogans and attempting to ensure people are being kind on Twitter. u003cbr>* Just sentences: there should be a punitive and deterrent element in sentencingu003cbr>* Protect the identity of the accused until charges are brought, at the earliest”,”party_11″:”UKIP”,”party_11_website”:”https://www.ukip.org/scotland”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_backup_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Donald Mackay”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendumsu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Actu003cbr>* Create a business scheme to allow veterans to set up their own business”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Covid-19 policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendums”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Economy policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Education policies will be added as they are 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u003c/li>n u003cli> Support our communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoodsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulationu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_11>n u003ch4> Transport u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 60 52.5″>u003ctitle> Transport icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”transport-2″ data-name=”transport” d=”M75.81,36.59,70.18,17.84H28.93L23.31,36.59H19.56V70.34h7.5V64.71h45v5.63h7.5V36.59Zm-44.06-15H67.37l3.56,13.12H27.81ZM25.18,49.71v-7.5L36.43,46v3.75ZM70.18,61H28.93l-1.87-1.87h45Zm3.94-11.25H62.68V46l11.44-3.75Z” transform=”translate(-19.56 -17.84)”/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland’s rail services by 2035u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Provide free bikes for all children of school age who cannot afford them, remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from public transport by 2023 and create a greener, more affordable railwayu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_12>n u003ch4> Justice u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” width=”70″ height=”67.294″ viewBox=”0 0 70 67.294″>u003ctitle> Justice icon u003c/title>u003cdefs>u003c/defs>u003ctitle>crime_v2u003c/title>u003crect class=”a” x=”14.976″ y=”16.835″ width=”4.77″ height=”4.77″ transform=”translate(18.675 -6.647) rotate(45)”/>u003crect class=”a” x=”15.758″ y=”8.319″ width=”4.77″ height=”4.77″ 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u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_national_party’ href=”https://www.snp.org”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_conservatives”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_2 name=”scottish_conservatives”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Conservatives party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/scottish_conservatives.png?v=4″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Scottish Conservatives u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Douglas Ross u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Douglas Ross icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/douglas_ross.png” />n u003c/div>n n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Key policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Covid-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> 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on energy efficiency in homes and buildingsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce Compulsory Sales Orders for long-term unoccupied properties in Scotlandu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Ban the use of combustible cladding in Scotlandu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Permanently increase the threshold for paying Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) to £250,000 u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_11>n u003ch4> Transport u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 60 52.5″>u003ctitle> Transport icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”transport-2″ data-name=”transport” d=”M75.81,36.59,70.18,17.84H28.93L23.31,36.59H19.56V70.34h7.5V64.71h45v5.63h7.5V36.59Zm-44.06-15H67.37l3.56,13.12H27.81ZM25.18,49.71v-7.5L36.43,46v3.75ZM70.18,61H28.93l-1.87-1.87h45Zm3.94-11.25H62.68V46l11.44-3.75Z” transform=”translate(-19.56 -17.84)”/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Rebuild local railways where it 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u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_conservatives’ href=”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_labour”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_3 name=”scottish_labour”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Labour party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/scottish_labour.png?v=4″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Scottish Labour u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Anas Sarwar u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Anas Sarwar icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/anas_sarwar.png” />n u003c/div>n n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Key policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Create a community recovery fund to invest in local 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64.08 44.6 64.08 40.55 42.16 27.2 64.08 13.86 64.08 9.8″/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_4>n u003ch4> Economy u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 68.85 68.85″>u003ctitle> Economy icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”economy-2″ data-name=”economy” 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u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Build 200,000 zero carbon social homes over 10 yearsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Create a National Housing Agency to end the housing crisis u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Reform the law to allow for the acquisition of land for social housing at existing use value u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Guarantee fair rents and improve tenants’ rights in the private rented sector u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support people to own their own home, with specific support for young people and first-time buyers u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> End rough sleeping within the next five years u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_11>n u003ch4> Transport u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 60 52.5″>u003ctitle> Transport icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”transport-2″ data-name=”transport” 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divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_labour’ href=”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_greens”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_4 name=”scottish_greens”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Greens party logo” 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u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Get more mental health support workers alongside the policeu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Reform Fatal Accident Inquiries to stop delays and learn the lessons more quickly u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Establish a cross-party commission to recommend urgent steps to prevent violence against women and girls u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_liberal_democrats’ href=”https://www.scotlibdems.org.uk”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container alba”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_6 name=”alba”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Alba party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/alba.png?v=4″ 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u003c/li>n u003cli> The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Covid-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 81.77 80.79″>u003ctitle> Covid-19 icon u003c/title>u003cg id=”coronavirus-2″ data-name=”coronavirus”>u003cpath id=”Path_63148″ data-name=”Path 63148″ d=”M64.79,13.11a5.74,5.74,0,0,1-3.47-1.53L59.2,17.49a28.22,28.22,0,0,1,3.19,1.39Z” transform=”translate(-8.93 -3.79)”/>u003cpath id=”Path_63149″ data-name=”Path 63149″ d=”M17.51,53.43a5.81,5.81,0,0,1,1.32,3l5.3-2.18a22.35,22.35,0,0,1-.9-2.53Z” 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capitalu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> A major expansion of available capital from the Scottish National Investment Bank to offer finance from start-up companies emerging from universities and collegesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Mobilise capital through the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance socially rented housing and other key infrastructure projectsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Reframe public sector purchasing and procurement to favour Scottish and locally based business u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce a development land tax in Scotland, with carefully calibrated exemptions to protect Scotland’s farming community but aimed at bringing assets, currently hoarded, into productive use u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_5>n u003ch4> Education u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 85 56.64″>u003ctitle> Education icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”Education-2″ 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livesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Government should be devolved and decentralised to the smallest practicable level and direct democracy should be utilised to return decision making to the people u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Covid-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 81.77 80.79″>u003ctitle> Covid-19 icon u003c/title>u003cg id=”coronavirus-2″ data-name=”coronavirus”>u003cpath id=”Path_63148″ data-name=”Path 63148″ d=”M64.79,13.11a5.74,5.74,0,0,1-3.47-1.53L59.2,17.49a28.22,28.22,0,0,1,3.19,1.39Z” transform=”translate(-8.93 -3.79)”/>u003cpath id=”Path_63149″ data-name=”Path 63149″ d=”M17.51,53.43a5.81,5.81,0,0,1,1.32,3l5.3-2.18a22.35,22.35,0,0,1-.9-2.53Z” transform=”translate(-8.93 -3.79)”/>u003cpath id=”Path_63150″ data-name=”Path 63150″ d=”M62.93,74.65l-2.28-5.4c-.81.34-1.64.64-2.48.91L60,75.8A5.68,5.68,0,0,1,62.93,74.65Z” transform=”translate(-8.93 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Sturgeon”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* Hold a second referendum on Scottish independence after the Covid crisis is overu003cbr>* Build 100,000 new homes by 2032, with at least 70% of these being for social rentu003cbr>* Launch a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear weapons u003cbr>* Provide ScotRail services within the public sector”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Make independence an essential priority for Scotland’s recovery from coronavirusu003cbr>* Keep robust travel restrictions and quarantine measures in place for as long as necessary, however open up and support international travel as soon as it safe to do sou003cbr>* Deliver a programme of booster vaccinations later this yearu003cbr>* Commission a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Hold a referendum once the pandemic ends if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* Invest over £33bn over the next five years in infrastructure and £1bn in the Scottish National Investment Bank. Found a new National Infrastructure Company to manage public assets. u003cbr>* Create a £25m fund to help drive tourism recoveryu003cbr>* Offer £50m in funding to the winning proposal of a competition for economic transformation, as part of the delivery of a new 10-year strategyu003cbr>* Create a new £20m Rural Entrepreneur Fund – providing grants of up to £10,000 to support the relocation or creation of 2,000 new businessesu003cbr>* Increase investment in private sector-led research and development projects by £100m over the next five yearsu003cbr>* Invest an additional £500m to support new jobs and reskill people for the jobs of the future over the next parliament.”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Invest a further £1bn to close the school attainment gap and recruit 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistantsu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for primary school pupils all year and for all children in state-funded special schoolsu003cbr>* Provide every child with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use itu003cbr>* Fund the Young Person’s Guarantee of a university, college, apprenticeship, training place or job for every young person u003cbr>* Build a childcare system which provides care before and after school all year round, free for the least well-off familiesu003cbr>* Scrap charges for school trips and practical activities for less well-off families, and increase the school uniform grant to at least £120 in primary and £150 in secondary”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% to “support and renew” the NHS recovery, increasing funding of frontline services by over £2.5 billionu003cbr>* Increase social care investment by 25% which will back a the creation of a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Offer NHS staff a 4% average pay increase u003cbr>* Introduce a new national wage for care staff as well as national pay bargaining for the sectoru003cbr>* Increase direct investment into mental health services by at least 25% and ensure that in five years, 10% of the frontline NHS budget is invested in mental healthu003cbr>* Create a national pharmaceutical agency for the NHS to ensure secure and sustainable supply chains for vital medicines”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Maintain and strengthen Scotland’s relationship with the EU with a view to rejoining as soon as possibleru003cbr>* Continue to advocate for Scotland’s inclusion in the Erasmus programme”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Decarbonise the heating of one million homes by 2030 with investment of £1.6bn over five yearsru003cbr>* Double the Climate Justice Fund to £24m over four yearsru003cbr>* Implement a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers next yearru003cbr>* Increase targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025ru003cbr>* Invest £100m in a green jobs fund to support new and more opportunities for green job creation”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Freeze Income Tax rates and bands and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation u003cbr>* Remove council tax for under 22su003cbr>* Begin work to deliver a minimum income guarantee – a social welfare system that ensures everyone has enough money to live on, but gives additional support to those who need it such as for childcare or disabilityu003cbr>* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per child per week and give families with children in receipt of free school meals a cash grant of £520 until the programme is fully rolled out. u003cbr>* Publish a new four-year delivery plan to lift children out of poverty, backed by a £50m fundu003cbr>* Explore the transition to a four-day-week with a £10m fund to allow companies to pilot and measure its benefits”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Invest £3.5bn to deliver 100,000 affordable homes by 2032u003cbr>* Support our communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoodsu003cbr>* Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulationu003cbr>* Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland’s rail services by 2035u003cbr>* Provide free bikes for all children of school age who cannot afford them, remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from public transport by 2023 and create a greener, more affordable railwayu003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22u003cbr>* Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling”,”party_1_issue_12″:”* Undertake a review of Scotland’s prosecution system u003cbr>* Ensure that every child victim/witness will have access to a safe space based on the European Barnahus Model by 2025 u003cbr>* Appoint a victims’ commissioner to provide an independent voice for victims and witnesses and review the provision of victim servicesu003cbr>* Establish a new multi-year £100m funding stream over three years to support frontline services and focus on prevention of violence against women and girls from school onwards”,”party_2″:”Scottish Conservatives”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”,”party_2_colour”:”#0575C9″,”party_2_leader_1″:”Douglas Ross”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr>* Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr>* A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr>* A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities”,”party_2_issue_2″:”* £600m to tackle the NHS backlog in 2021-22u003cbr>* £40m to NHS staff wellbeing this year including rest facilities and mental health servicesu003cbr>* £120m into a catch-up premium for every Scottish school pupilu003cbr>* Delay the introduction of any new non-Covid related regulations on businesses to April 2023u003cbr>* £500 for every Scottish adult to retrain for work each yearu003cbr>* Tougher sentences for fraud following an increase during the pandemic”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Oppose a second referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Give the Scottish Parliament the tools it needs to properly scrutinise governmentu003cbr>* Bring forward proposals to allow voters to recall MSPs in exceptional circumstancesu003cbr>* Support a freeze in MSP and ministerial pay for the next five yearsu003cbr>* Support a reduction in the Cabinet from 12 to six”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* Fund for full fibre broadband to every home by 2027u003cbr>* Introduce a 10-working day national standard for all business support grant applications to be processedu003cbr>* Maintain the poundage rate freeze until the 2023 revaluationu003cbr>* 25% rates relief to businesses in 2022-23 u003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Exporting Institute for trade expertiseu003cbr>* Scrap parking charges to encourage local shopping”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Allocate £1bn of attainment funding to all schools over five yearsu003cbr>* Oppose any cancellation of examsu003cbr>* Review the quality of teacher training and recruit 3,000 teachers over the next parliamentu003cbr>* Allow every primary school child to access a free school lunch and breakfastu003cbr>* Create a Rural Teacher Fund to attract teachers to work in rural areasu003cbr>* Introduce a dedicated STEM teacher in every primary schoolu003cbr>* Introduce a “subject guarantee” to pupils that allows them all to take at least seven subjects in S4″,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Increase annual NHS funding by at least £2bn by 2025-26, based on current estimatesu003cbr>* Increase medical school training in line with future need, prioritising people who live in Scotlandu003cbr>* Invest at least 11% of the overall NHS budget into general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Increase mental health funding to 10% of the frontline health budgetu003cbr>* Maintain local democratic accountability of the social care system and avoid “unnecessary” structural reformsu003cbr>* Review the provision of drug treatment and recovery services before the end of the year”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Create a “global Britain” now that the country has left the EUu003cbr>* Negotiate a deal with the UK government to decide the future of the fishing industry”,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a £25m Cleaner Seas Fund to take harmful products including plastics out of the seasu003cbr>* End peat extraction and aim to restore peatland to 20,000 hectares by 2024-25u003cbr>* Bring forward a new Animal Welfare Bill which would ban the use of electric shock collars and the sale of dogs with cropped earsu003cbr>* Create Scotland’s third national park in Gallowayu003cbr>* Bring forward a Circular Economy Bill to help Scotland achieve net-zero emissions by 2045u003cbr>* Support the UK government’s North Sea Transition Deal”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Use devolved powers to target “specific” groups in receipt of the UK government’s £20 per week increase to Universal Creditu003cbr>* Free school lunches and breakfasts for all children in primary schoolu003cbr>* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Introduce a taper rate to the Carer Allowance so that carers do not lose all of their allowance if they earn more than the limitu003cbr>* End rough sleeping by 2026 by investing £10.8m in a Housing First programmeu003cbr>* Create a government-owned company to give disabled people work experience and skills to help them secure long-term employment”,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 new affordable homes with 40,000 of these in the social rented sectoru003cbr>* Invest £50m in the Rural Housing Fundu003cbr>* £2.5bn over the next five years on energy efficiency in homes and buildingsu003cbr>* Introduce Compulsory Sales Orders for long-term unoccupied properties in Scotlandu003cbr>* Ban the use of combustible cladding in Scotlandu003cbr>* Permanently increase the threshold for paying Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) to £250,000″,”party_2_issue_11″:”* Rebuild local railways where it would make “economic sense”u003cbr>* Expand the M8 to three lanes and upgrade the whole A1 to a dual carriagewayu003cbr>* Invest £200m to repair potholesu003cbr>* Deliver a national charging infrastructure by 2025 for electric vehiclesu003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Smart Travel Card for passengers to use on all types of domestic transport in Scotlandu003cbr>* Scrap Caledonian Maritime Assets and introduce long-term contracts for ferry operators”,”party_2_issue_12″:”* Bring in a Victims Law which would include an end to the not proven verdict u003cbr>* Introduce a Local Policing Act which would include reinstating policy scrutiny boards across Scotlandu003cbr>* Double the maximum sentence for assaults on police and other emergency workers u003cbr>* Introduce whole-life sentences, end the presumption against short sentences and end automatic early releasesu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Bill and introduce a Protection of Free Speech Billu003cbr>* Revoke prisoners’ right to vote”,”party_3″:”Scottish Labour”,”party_3_website”:”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”,”party_3_colour”:”#E91D0E”,”party_3_leader_1″:”Anas Sarwar”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr>* Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr>* Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr>* Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas”,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Deliver a national plan for recovery that has five key themes: jobs recovery, NHS recovery, education recovery, community recovery and climate recovery”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr>* Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr>* Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr>* Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Guarantee job or training opportunities following the pandemic by investing in a national training fund and investing in Scotland’s infrastructure u003cbr>* Boost economic growth by repurposing Scottish Enterprise as a business recovery agency focussing on a restart fund and transition fundu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas and introduce specific programmes aimed at regenerating the high streetu003cbr>* Establish a Better Business Scotland certification scheme for businesses who want to work with the public sector to ensure they meet high standards, and make sure no publicly procured contract uses zero-hours contractsu003cbr>* Restructure the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide funding for new ideas, offer investment for “capital for good” projects and support businesses transition to green and digital futuresu003cbr>* Reduce business rates on non-grocery bricks and mortar shops, and set up a taskforce to fully examine how business rates need to change”,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Deliver an Education Comeback Plan, including a personal tutoring programme for all ages and all pupilsu003cbr>* A resit guarantee for pupils affected by the pandemic, with the offer of a free college place to take national qualificationsu003cbr>* Provide extra digital training for staff and a digital device for every pupil, and give targeted support to households without broadband u003cbr>* A guaranteed completion opportunity for probationary teachers to ensure that they can gain registration and help to refresh the workforceu003cbr>* Implement a minimum student incomeu003cbr>* A summer comeback programme focusing on sport, outdoor activities, mental health and wellbeingu003cbr>* Prioritise vaccinations for teaching and school staff”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* An NHS recovery plan that gets services back on track and prioritises cancer treatment and careu003cbr>* Establish rapid diagnostic centres so patients can have a diagnosis within two weeks u003cbr>* Increase the mental health budget to 11% of the NHS budget, to match spending in England and Wales, and establish dedicated mental health A&Es in every health board areau003cbr>* Improve access to mental health support with a new referral and triage service and ensure GPs have dedicated mental health workers u003cbr>* Create a national care service u003cbr>* A real pay rise for NHS staff and raising social carers’ pay to £15 an hour, with an immediate rise to £12u003cbr>* Set up baby clubs to support mums of babies born during the pandemic, offer an extra health visitor visit at 18 months, ensure women have help to breastfeed and support women with post-natal depression”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Develop as close a relationship with the EU as possible as part of a radical redesign of the UK’s democratic institutionsru003cbr>* Explore the need to reform the immigration system so that it works for all nations and regions in the UK now that the UK has left the EU”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* Invest in energy efficiency measures for buildings across Scotlandu003cbr>* A Just Transition focused on developing the skills needed in a green recovery and protecting jobs and communities impacted by the transition to net zerou003cbr>* Develop a coherent biodiversity action plan for post-2020 for land, air and seau003cbr>* Give interest-free government loans to help more low and middle income households buy electric cars over the next two years and accelerate the roll-out of electric charging points u003cbr>* Increase active travel spending to 10% of the overall transport budget, giving priority to encouraging and enabling people to get out of their cars, onto bikes, and walk more u003cbr>* Decarbonise Scotland’s railways within 15 years, focusing on electrification, and seek to make train journeys between Scotland’s cities faster than going by car”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week by the end of 2022 u003cbr>* Abolish the council tax and replace it with a fairer alternative based on property values and ability to payu003cbr>* A guaranteed public sector job for six months for every unemployed person under 25, unemployed disabled people not already on a job scheme, and the long-term unemployed u003cbr>* Create a new £500 retraining grant for people who are unemployed or on furlough, without affecting existing payments, and an extra £750 in income support for unemployed people in training.u003cbr>* Bring shoppers back to town centres with a £75 prepaid card to every adult in Scotland to be spent in non-food retail businessesu003cbr>* Roll out government funded subsidies for holiday accommodation across Scotland giving tourists every third night of accommodation free on off-peak dates”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Build 200,000 zero carbon social homes over 10 yearsu003cbr>* Create a National Housing Agency to end the housing crisis u003cbr>* Reform the law to allow for the acquisition of land for social housing at existing use value u003cbr>* Guarantee fair rents and improve tenants’ rights in the private rented sector u003cbr>* Support people to own their own home, with specific support for young people and first-time buyers u003cbr>* End rough sleeping within the next five years”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Place railways back into public control and increase rail connectivity between smaller towns and villages by reopening stations and restoring neglected serviceu003cbr>* Give councils authority to directly run local bus services u003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to under 25s, with a long-term goal of universal free bus travelu003cbr>* Create neighbourhoods where people can access all the services they need within a 20-minute walku003cbr>* Bring all lifeline ferry services into public hands – with investment in a new fleet of ships fit for the future – and make ferry travel free for under 25s”,”party_3_issue_12″:”* Restore the connections between the police force and local communities and end further centralisationu003cbr>* Invest in specialist staff to rebalance the workforce and increase the number of officers in local divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr>* Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr>* Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr>* Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court”,”party_4″:”Scottish Greens”,”party_4_website”:”https://greens.scot”,”party_4_colour”:”#5FB25F”,”party_4_leader_1″:”Patrick Harvie”,”party_4_leader_2″:”Lorna Slater”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* A fair and green recovery from the pandemicu003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with direct investment in transport, warm homes and renewable energyu003cbr>* Re-join the European Union as an independent country”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Introduce a universal isolation grant to support people isolating because of an infectious disease such as Covid-19u003cbr>* Launch a public inquiry into the Scottish government’s response to the Covid pandemicu003cbr>* Develop robust PPE procurement and ensure fair access to treatment and rehabilitation for people with long Covidu003cbr>* Use a one-off windfall tax on profits made by larger companies as a result of the pandemic to rebalance the economy and support recovery”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next parliamentary term, and build the Green Yes campaignu003cbr>* Encourage further devolution of powers from Westminster to Holyrood such as energy and employment lawsu003cbr>* In the event of Scottish independence, introduce taxes on the wealthiest members of society, luxury goods and carbon emissions from corporations”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Phase in a four-day working weeku003cbr>* Introduce a 1% annual “millionaires tax” on wealth and assets above £1m – including property, land, pensions and other assetsu003cbr>* Scrap council tax and replace it with a residential property tax related to property valueu003cbr>* Support the partial replacement of corporation tax at the UK level with a carbon tax that increases over time in line with our climate targetsu003cbr>* Replace air passenger duty with a frequent flyer levy, where passengers pay increasing sums for flights after their first return in 12 months – but excluding domestic flights in the Highlands and islands”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Introduce year-round free school meals for all pupils including breakfast u003cbr>* Recruit 5,500 additional permanent teachers and 2,500 more additional needs teachers, and reduce class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupilsu003cbr>* Make an extra year of funding available for students who need it, for example those who need to repeat a year because of the pandemicu003cbr>* Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a kindergarten stage for three to six year oldsu003cbr>* End P1-S3 Scottish National Standardised Assessments and end homework in primary schools. In secondary schools, expand continuous assessment of coursework and reduce the role of exams.”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Commit at least 11% of health spending to general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Give 10% of frontline health spend to mental health and put £161m into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by 2026u003cbr>* Introduce “safe and compassionate” laws that allow terminally ill adults the right to an assisted deathu003cbr>* End competitive tendering in the care systemu003cbr>* Remove the rule that two doctors must approve abortions and retain the provision for abortions at home introduced during the pandemic”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Campaign with the support of the European Green Party to re-join the EU as an independent nationru003cbr>* Re-join the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programmeru003cbr>* Establish low carbon transport connections with Europe”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Source at least 70% of the onshore wind supply chain domesticallyu003cbr>* Invest in marine renewables and give financial support for innovation and to support early stage tidal turbines u003cbr>* Call on the UK government to stop issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration and development and end subsidies and tax breaks for the industryu003cbr>* Ban the importation of shale and fracked gas for processing in Scotland, and ensure the Scottish government can deliver the transition to net-zero u003cbr>* Introduce Low Emission Zones with immediate effect in all areas that breach air quality limits”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Introduce a Universal Basic Income pilot by negotiating the necessary powers from Westminster – and if refused, fund smaller-scale, more limited pilots that do not require powersu003cbr>* Support the transition to a four-day week with no loss of payu003cbr>* Accelerate the roll-out of the new Scottish Child Payment and double it to £20 per week per childu003cbr>* Increase grants for new born children in low income families and school clothing grants by £100u003cbr>* Give funds to local authorities so they can introduce grants to mitigate the effects of the benefit cap”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Invest £500m each year to ensure heating homes and buildings meets climate goals u003cbr>* Introduce green heat grants for households to replace fossil fuel boilers with green alternatives, principally heat pumps, with the aim of installing 500,000 by 2030, and ban new fossil fuel boilers from 2025 for buildings off the gas grid, and 2028 for all buildingsu003cbr>* Establish a regulator for the private rented sector and ban winter evictionsu003cbr>* Support the building of 120,000 homes by 2032 – 70% of which should be for social rent – and invest in innovative public housing for older peopleu003cbr>* End homelessness”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* Cease funding road building projects that add capacity to the network and redirect funds toward safety improvements, maintenance of existing existing infrastructure, public transport, cycling and walking u003cbr>* Invest in cycling, walking so everyone in towns and cities to be able to get what they need within a 15-minute walku003cbr>* Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2026 and introduce workplace parking levies, congestion and parking charges, and a 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas u003cbr>* Bring the rail network, bus companies and ferry routes into public ownership”,”party_4_issue_12″:”* Abolish the not proven verdictu003cbr>* Reform prisons, including more funding for alternatives to custody and special provisions for offenders who are mentally ill and for women who are pregnant or have young childrenu003cbr>* Support full integration of British Transport Police with Police Scotlandu003cbr>* Provide legal aid to all domestic abuse victims including in civil cases, decriminalise sex work, increase funding for Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland and make funding available to the human trafficking awareness group TARA”,”party_5″:”Scottish Liberal Democrats”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.scotlibdems.org.uk”,”party_5_colour”:”#EFAC18″,”party_5_leader_1″:”Willie Rennie”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Put recovery first from the pandemic u003cbr>* An education bounce back plan u003cbr>* Train more mental health specialists for community centres, hospitals, workplaces and schools u003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with a green jobs revolution u003cbr>* Oppose a second independence referendum, given there’s a pandemic”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* Put education at the heart of the recovery from Covid u003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staffu003cbr>* A public inquiry to learn the lessons of the pandemic for the future”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendum u003cbr>* Work to reform the UK to a federal future”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* A new fiscal framework to ensure local councils get a fair share of the budgetru003cbr>* New pay audits to ensure fair opportunities for people from ethnic minorities and disabled people ru003cbr>* Scottish workers given the best chance to manufacture offshore wind turbinesru003cbr>* Increase the range of jobs and careers available to people in rural areas”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* A programme to help children bounce back in education including an expansion of outdoor learning, increased provision of school trips and new support assistantsu003cbr>* Play-based education until age seven based on the Nordic modelu003cbr>* The legal right to defer Primary 1 and have it replaced with funded early learning and childcare starting this Augustu003cbr>* Every qualified teacher guaranteed a job with a minimum starting salary of £30,000, as well as a review of workloads and career opportunities for existing teachersu003cbr>* End national testing of five year olds”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* An urgent plan to put recovery first for the NHSru003cbr>* A bigger range of specialists, diagnosis and treatment in local communitiesru003cbr>* A target of 15% of new health spending going to mental health and train more mental health specialists, including a grant of £5,000 for students undertaking counselling coursesru003cbr>* Treat drug misuse as a health problem rather than prosecuting those who experience it ru003cbr>* Promote preventative health to take the pressure off the NHSru003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staff”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Support a close relationship with Europe”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Move one million homes to zero emission heating by 2030u003cbr>* Invest in low carbon heat networksu003cbr>* Double the programmes to end fuel povertyu003cbr>* Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industryu003cbr>* New national parks, and new woodlands close to where people live”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Develop a system of Universal Basic Incomeu003cbr>* A job guarantee for 16-24 year oldsu003cbr>* 2,000 paid graduate internships with small businessesu003cbr>* New £5,000 Scottish Training Bonds to help people change careers”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 affordable homes to help address homelessnessu003cbr>* Help to Renovate loans to bring derelict homes back into use”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Reopen railway lines and move away from fossil fuels on the networku003cbr>* Give the public confidence in electric vehicles by progress towards a network of well-maintained rapid chargersu003cbr>* Support active travel, making it easier to make safe journeys by bike or on footu003cbr>* Create single through-tickets and swipe cards that work for buses, trains and ferries across Scotlandu003cbr>* New local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services”,”party_5_issue_12″:”* Increase the influence of communities over the way they are policed and give Police Scotland more support u003cbr>* Improve rehabilitation services for people leaving prison so they are less likely to re-offend u003cbr>* Get more mental health support workers alongside the policeu003cbr>* Reform Fatal Accident Inquiries to stop delays and learn the lessons more quickly u003cbr>* Establish a cross-party commission to recommend urgent steps to prevent violence against women and girls”,”party_6″:”Alba”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.albaparty.org/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_backup_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Alex Salmond”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* Independence for Scotland as an immediate necessity, and overwhelming priority, achieved by democratic means through a vote of people resident in Scotlandu003cbr>* The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr>* The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* Set up a powerful independent inquiry to find out what Scotland must learn from its successes and mistakes during Covid”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Aims to achieve a “supermajority” of pro-independence MSPs in the election to deliver an overwhelming Scottish Parliamentary vote to begin negotiations on independence.u003cbr>* Pressure the new Scottish government to immediately start negotiations with Westminster on another referendum and the terms of independence, and lay a motion at Holyrood to deliver this instruction ru003cbr>* Include a formal demand for a section 30 order in the negotiating position ru003cbr>* If a section 30 order is refused, call for the Scottish government to urgently pass a referendum bill and be ready to fight it in the courts if need be ru003cbr>* Set up an independence commission to consider how to build an independent Scotlandru003cbr>* Propose a written constitution and a new Scottish currency to be introduced at an early date following independence with Sterling still used as a dual currency over a period of time”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Rebuild Scotland’s domestic business base by letting the Scottish National Investment bank access the global capitalu003cbr>* A major expansion of available capital from the Scottish National Investment Bank to offer finance from start-up companies emerging from universities and collegesu003cbr>* Mobilise capital through the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance socially rented housing and other key infrastructure projectsu003cbr>* Reframe public sector purchasing and procurement to favour Scottish and locally based business u003cbr>* Introduce a development land tax in Scotland, with carefully calibrated exemptions to protect Scotland’s farming community but aimed at bringing assets, currently hoarded, into productive use”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Double the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for nursery, primary and secondary pupils using high quality Scottish produce centrally purchased with menus devised by leading Scottish chefs and nutritionists – every week of the yearu003cbr>* A “bonfire of paperwork” for teachers to free them of bureaucracy and allow them to focus on teaching u003cbr>* Extra support for learning and behaviour support to help pupils recover from the pandemic u003cbr>* Sports and gym facilities to be provided free to the under 18s”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Build a new generation of world-class modern care homes which are better and safer for residents and more efficient in running costsru003cbr>* To bring forward and invest in a catch-up programme for all the NHS activity which was cancelled because of Covid ru003cbr>* A mental health recovery plan, recognising the impact of the pandemic on the mental wellbeing of the nationru003cbr>* To streamline management structures in the NHS and create greater frontline staff involvement in management”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* A proposal for Scotland to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and through EFTA admission to the European Economic Area while maintaining the Common Travel Area and potentially a customs union with the rest of the UKu003cbr>* This would serve as either an interim position from which to negotiate EU membership or a long term proposal depending on the view of the Scottish people.”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Create a Scottish National Renewables Corporation to finance the transition from a carbon based economy, and give the SNRC an automatic shareholding of all licensed energy projects of 30 MW and aboveu003cbr>* The Scottish National Renewables Corporation will make sure that this time a far greater proportion of those major wind farms will embrace public and community ownership and that many more of the components from which they’re built are made in Scotlandu003cbr>* Major programme to reinsulate houses u003cbr>* Commission a roadmap on how Scotland will electrify its transport network u003cbr>* Support the transition away from fossil fuels by replacing corporation tax with a wellhead production tax on the offshore oil industry”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Campaign for WASPI womenru003cbr>* Introduce a £500 annual payment to all low-income households ru003cbr>* Introduce a legal right to food to make tackling food poverty a legally enforceable requirement for public agencies”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Set up a Scottish national housing company to build houses to high standards including high environmental standards ru003cbr>* Buy land at the best price so the houses can be made available for the lowest possible rentru003cbr>* Build a major retraining programme into the heart of the Housing Company to train people in Scotland to fill the gaps in the construction workforce, and build the houses out of Scottish timber”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Modernise and expand domestic ferry services u003cbr>* Fund transitioning Scotland’s taxi fleet to electric vehicles, and bring the level of grant provided to taxi drivers at least in line with Northern Ireland”,”party_6_issue_12″:”* Give women the right to maintain their sex based protections as set out in the Equality Act 2010″,”party_7″:”All for Unity”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.alliance4unity.uk”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_backup_colour”:””,”party_7_lead_candidate_1″:”George Galloway”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* Stand up to the SNP against Scottish independence u003cbr>* Seek to form a government of ‘national unity’ in favour of the Union u003cbr>* Work with any and all pro-Union parties to stop nationalists from holding a second independence referendum”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* Scotland needs time to rebuild after the pandemic and Brexitu003cbr>* Introduce a personalised tutoring and mentoring programme to help pupils catch up after Covid u003cbr>* Emergency funding for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical NHS operations”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* A Clarity Act to set down the conditions for granting another referendum and the rules for holding itu003cbr>* No referendum unless a majority of all Scottish adults vote for pro-independence parties in the electionu003cbr>* All Scots living elsewhere in the UK should be eligible to vote in any referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Scottish regions who vote No in a referendum should have the choice of remaining in the UK or joining the new independent Scotlandu003cbr>* Scottish government should be renamed as the Scottish Executive and more powers should be devolved to the regions”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Reverse the trend of declining inward investment in Scotland by providing a strong voice within UK initiatives and using trade missions within the FCO and British Councilu003cbr>* Create a Small Business Recovery unit to safeguard small business interestsu003cbr>* Scrap the Scottish National Investment Bank and the Scottish National Infrastructure Company”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Develop national interventions for addressing the attainment gapu003cbr>* Introduce individualised tutoring and mentoring programmes to help pupils catch up after Covidu003cbr>* A Scottish education recovery programme, putting literacy and numeracy at the centre of the learning process againu003cbr>* Giving Scottish schools more autonomy like their English counterpartsu003cbr>* Replace Education Scotland with an independent inspectorate, reform the SQA and radically overhaul the Curriculum for Excellence”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Emergency funding and organisational prioritisation for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical operationsu003cbr>* Increase the number of students in Scottish medical schools who are domiciled in Scotlandu003cbr>* Increase recruitment and retention in general practiceu003cbr>* Increase the provision of mental health services for all, particularly young peopleu003cbr>* Give carer workers a reasonable wage to stop high turnover and make caring a rewarding careeru003cbr>* Increase funding for drug rehabilitation centres”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Resist any attempt to remove Scotland from the European Convention on Human Rights”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* A pause in the afforestation of the uplands to put in place robust legislation that protects Scotland’s iconic heather moorlandsu003cbr>* Encourage regenerative agriculture and encourage farmers to transition to carbon-neutral grazing systemsu003cbr>* Campaign for discrete continental-style cycle lanes to be incorporated into any new developmentu003cbr>* Force retailers to use biodegradable packaging unless a clear need for plastic can be proven”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* An independent commission to examine optimal tax rates and make recommendationsu003cbr>* Skills funding should be more aligned to industry need”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Push for any quantative easing by the Treasury to be used to fund projects to increase the housing stocku003cbr>* Encourage the building of new, low-cost starter homesu003cbr>* Campaign for more high street shops to be turned back into housing to regenerate communities in town and city centresu003cbr>* End homelessness by allowing local authorities to convert empty town centre shops into hostels”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* A review of the country’s major road network with a view to supporting fishing, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, manufacturing and heavy engineeringu003cbr>* Improve the A82, dual the A1 from Edinburgh to the Border and find a solution to landslides on the Rest and Be Thankfulu003cbr>* A road link between the Mull of Galloway and Northern Ireland and upgrade the A75 to strengthen the economy of the south of Scotlandu003cbr>* An urgent review of ferry services in the west of Scotland”,”party_7_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Billu003cbr>* Remove all political links from the role of Lord Advocateu003cbr>* Verdicts in Scottish courts would be changed to “proven” or “not proven”u003cbr>* Make Police Scotland locally accountable again by having a chief constable in every former constabulary area”,”party_8″:”Freedom Alliance”,”party_8_website”:”https://freedomalliance.co.uk”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_backup_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Carol Dobson”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Oppose the government lockdown restrictionsu003cbr>* Oppose any and all curtailments of the liberties and human rights of free individualsu003cbr>* Reduce the role of the state in the management of our livesu003cbr>* Government should be devolved and decentralised to the smallest practicable level and direct democracy should be utilised to return decision making to the people”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Closing down the country in response to a coronavirus is a dramatic and completely unnecessary overreactionu003cbr>* Quarantining the country is not the way to deal with the virusu003cbr>* It is not the government’s place to impose health measures on the populaceu003cbr>* People should have the absolute right to leave home whenever they choose, to make a living and operate business premisesu003cbr>* Opposed to the compulsory use of facemasks in schools, and to the idea of vaccination mandates or “vaccine passports””,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Freedom Alliance MSPs will abstain on any vote on IndyRef2 in the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Should IndyRef2 happen Freedom Alliance MSPs and members will be free to campaign on whichever side they choose”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Seek to introduce legislation to more effectively tax big online corporationsu003cbr>* A levy a Covid-19 ‘windfall tax’ on the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturersu003cbr>* End the immunity from prosecution granted to the pharmaceutical industry by the UK governmentu003cbr>* End deficit spending at the UK government level. All government expenditure should be financed by tax receipts.”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* A multi-faceted approach to help children regain the ground lost over the last year through post-school education in vocational courses and apprenticeships and also via decreased pupil to teacher ratiosu003cbr>* The additional teaching staff required to be recruited from retired teachers, former teaching assistants or people currently undergoing teacher training. u003cbr>* Oppose any more school, further and higher education institution closures and instead push for a permanent return to face-to-face teaching. u003cbr>* Oppose any moves towards mask mandates, mandatory Covid-19 testing or “vaccine passports”. The party will ensure to the best of its ability that all pupils, students and parents are fully informed of all the issues relating to masks and Covid-19 testing and that the measures are voluntary.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate what has happened in care homes, the NHS and corridors of power since the beginning of 2020u003cbr>* Push for more funding for scientific studies aimed at finding ways to improve the nations’ health via natural and alternative means to expand upon existing recommendations regarding eating a balanced diet and taking enough exercise in the fresh airu003cbr>* Significant increases in Vitamin D3 testing with appropriate management and supplementation”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Respects the democratic will of the British people and accepts the result of the 2016 Brexit referendumu003cbr>* Will seek to build relationships and alliances with elected representatives from EU member states and countries around the world opposed to the disproportionate lockdown measures being imposed upon the people of their nations”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* Oppose any further extensions of the furlough scheme and the costly propping up of non-viable jobs and businessesu003cbr>* Reach out to concerned and like-minded experts, business leaders and stakeholders willing to help us find the best way forward to create viable jobs and rebuild our shattered economy”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Fight to regain Scots’ basic human right to unfettered freedom of movement within the UKu003cbr>* Try to enable Scots to travel abroad without requiring “vaccine passports” or Covid-19 tests”,”party_8_issue_12″:”* Policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9″:”Reform UK”,”party_9_website”:”https://reformuk.scot”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_backup_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Michelle Ballantyne”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Return of Freedomsu003cbr>* Restart the Economy u003cbr>* Restore Education Standards u003cbr>* Rebuild the NHSu003cbr>* Reform Holyrood”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* No more lockdownsu003cbr>* No domestic vaccine passports”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendumu003cbr>* Full audited review of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish government u003cbr>* Devolve further powers to local government”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* A costed radical plan for economic reform that will make Scots up to £1,500 better offu003cbr>* Scrap Air Passenger Dutyu003cbr>* Raise income tax threshold to £20,000″,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum for Excellence and return direction of learning to teachersu003cbr>* Champion play-based learning for early yearsu003cbr>* Introduce a curriculum that will give equal weight to academic and vocational learning”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Create an NHS Reserve Force that works similar to Army reservesu003cbr>* Put the priority on standards of patient care and job satisfaction”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Seize all opportunities that Brexit will present”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Act”,”party_10″:”Scottish Family Party”,”party_10_website”:”https://scottishfamily.org”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_backup_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Richard Lucas”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Support stable family life as family instability currently fuels a host of social problemsu003cbr>* Promote marriage as a means of strengthening families, through education, the tax system and wider cultureu003cbr>* Protect the lives of the unborn from the ongoing tragedy of abortion, and the elderly from the pressure of assisted suicideu003cbr>* Protect our basic freedoms, including freedom of speechu003cbr>* Restore high standards to education”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* A swift return to full normality, with the permanent lifting of all lockdown restrictions”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* Neutral on the benefits or otherwise of Scottish independence. u003cbr>* Oppose a referendum in the next parliament because more time needs to pass since the last one and pandemic recovery necessitates a period of stability”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Boost the economy by removing all Covid restrictions to allow businesses to flourish again”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum or Excellence and replace it with a clear academic curriculumu003cbr>* Maintain exams as an objective and fair measure of attainmentu003cbr>* Empower teachers to maintain good discipline, using effective punishments where necessaryu003cbr>* End indoctrination into left wing/liberal/progressive political causes in schoolsu003cbr>* Replace “vulgar and corrupting” sex education with facts-based lessons presenting positive moral principles. u003cbr>* Stop teaching transgender ideology”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* A well-funded and efficiently managed NHSu003cbr>* Stop all transgender “treatments” for under 16su003cbr>* Medical confidentiality and decision-making powers at 16 instead of the current 12 years oldu003cbr>* Addiction treatments focusing on cure rather than perpetual managementu003cbr>* Council tax relief for families taking elderly relatives into their own home”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Neutral on membership of the EU, but respect the result of the 2016 referendum”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Conserve the natural beauty of Scotland, its flora and faunau003cbr>* Practical, sustainable and carefully costed measures to tackle carbon emissionsu003cbr>* Every means of energy generation should be considered on its merits and none dismissed on ideological grounds”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Remove the discrimination against full time parents currently embodied in the tax and benefits system, helping families to choose the work/home balance that they desireu003cbr>* Oppose social engineering to close the gender pay gapu003cbr>* Support meritocracy, not quotas or other such unfair and discriminatory employment practices”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* Enable families to buy their own homes by encouraging more new family housing developments on brownfield sites”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Cheap and efficient public transport alongside ongoing affordable car useu003cbr>* Extend safe cycleways by integration into pavement areasu003cbr>* Explore the potential of river transport on some of Scotland’s great waterways”,”party_10_issue_12″:”* Stop the politicisation of the police as it undermines confidence in their impartialityu003cbr>* Police pursuing criminals instead of pedalling politically correct slogans and attempting to ensure people are being kind on Twitter. u003cbr>* Just sentences: there should be a punitive and deterrent element in sentencingu003cbr>* Protect the identity of the accused until charges are brought, at the earliest”,”party_11″:”UKIP”,”party_11_website”:”https://www.ukip.org/scotland”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_backup_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Donald Mackay”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendumsu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Actu003cbr>* Create a business scheme to allow veterans to set up their own business”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Covid-19 policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendums”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Economy policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Education policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_6″:”* NHS and care policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_7″:”* EU relations policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_12″:”* Crime policies will be added as they are announced”},”englishVocab”:{“choose_issue”:”What are the parties promising you?”,”choose_issue_sub”:”Select an issue and a party to see their policies”,”expand_all”:”Expand all”,”collapse_all”:”Collapse all”,”leader_heading”:”Leader”,”leader_heading_plural”:”Leaders”,”lead_candidate_heading”:”Lead candidate”,”pledges_heading”:”Main policies”,”change_issue”:”Change issue”,”devolved_message”:”This issue is u003cb> devolved or partly 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rights.”,”issue_10_devolved”:”0″,”issue_10_link”:””,”issue_10_link_message”:””,”issue_11″:”Transport”,”issue_11_title”:”Transport”,”issue_11_subtitle”:””,”issue_11_description”:”Covering rail ownership and franchising, bus services, and road upgrades.”,”issue_11_devolved”:”0″,”issue_11_link”:””,”issue_11_link_message”:””,”issue_12″:”Justice”,”issue_12_title”:”Justice”,”issue_12_subtitle”:””,”issue_12_description”:”Including police and prisons, drug policy, preventing crime, sentencing, and rights.”,”issue_12_devolved”:”0″,”issue_12_link”:””,”issue_12_link_message”:””,”party_1″:”Scottish National Party”,”party_1_website”:”https://www.snp.org”,”party_1_colour”:”#F8ED2E”,”party_1_backup_colour”:”#E5C403″,”party_1_leader_1″:”Nicola Sturgeon”,”party_1_issue_1″:”* Hold a second referendum on Scottish independence after the Covid crisis is overu003cbr>* Build 100,000 new homes by 2032, with at least 70% of these being for social rentu003cbr>* Launch a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Oppose nuclear weapons u003cbr>* Provide ScotRail services within the public sector”,”party_1_issue_2″:”* Make independence an essential priority for Scotland’s recovery from coronavirusu003cbr>* Keep robust travel restrictions and quarantine measures in place for as long as necessary, however open up and support international travel as soon as it safe to do sou003cbr>* Deliver a programme of booster vaccinations later this yearu003cbr>* Commission a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland”,”party_1_issue_3″:”* Hold a referendum once the pandemic ends if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood”,”party_1_issue_4″:”* Invest over £33bn over the next five years in infrastructure and £1bn in the Scottish National Investment Bank. Found a new National Infrastructure Company to manage public assets. u003cbr>* Create a £25m fund to help drive tourism recoveryu003cbr>* Offer £50m in funding to the winning proposal of a competition for economic transformation, as part of the delivery of a new 10-year strategyu003cbr>* Create a new £20m Rural Entrepreneur Fund – providing grants of up to £10,000 to support the relocation or creation of 2,000 new businessesu003cbr>* Increase investment in private sector-led research and development projects by £100m over the next five yearsu003cbr>* Invest an additional £500m to support new jobs and reskill people for the jobs of the future over the next parliament.”,”party_1_issue_5″:”* Invest a further £1bn to close the school attainment gap and recruit 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistantsu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for primary school pupils all year and for all children in state-funded special schoolsu003cbr>* Provide every child with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use itu003cbr>* Fund the Young Person’s Guarantee of a university, college, apprenticeship, training place or job for every young person u003cbr>* Build a childcare system which provides care before and after school all year round, free for the least well-off familiesu003cbr>* Scrap charges for school trips and practical activities for less well-off families, and increase the school uniform grant to at least £120 in primary and £150 in secondary”,”party_1_issue_6″:”* Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% to “support and renew” the NHS recovery, increasing funding of frontline services by over £2.5 billionu003cbr>* Increase social care investment by 25% which will back a the creation of a National Care Serviceu003cbr>* Offer NHS staff a 4% average pay increase u003cbr>* Introduce a new national wage for care staff as well as national pay bargaining for the sectoru003cbr>* Increase direct investment into mental health services by at least 25% and ensure that in five years, 10% of the frontline NHS budget is invested in mental healthu003cbr>* Create a national pharmaceutical agency for the NHS to ensure secure and sustainable supply chains for vital medicines”,”party_1_issue_7″:”* Maintain and strengthen Scotland’s relationship with the EU with a view to rejoining as soon as possibleru003cbr>* Continue to advocate for Scotland’s inclusion in the Erasmus programme”,”party_1_issue_8″:”* Decarbonise the heating of one million homes by 2030 with investment of £1.6bn over five yearsru003cbr>* Double the Climate Justice Fund to £24m over four yearsru003cbr>* Implement a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers next yearru003cbr>* Increase targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025ru003cbr>* Invest £100m in a green jobs fund to support new and more opportunities for green job creation”,”party_1_issue_9″:”* Freeze Income Tax rates and bands and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation u003cbr>* Remove council tax for under 22su003cbr>* Begin work to deliver a minimum income guarantee – a social welfare system that ensures everyone has enough money to live on, but gives additional support to those who need it such as for childcare or disabilityu003cbr>* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per child per week and give families with children in receipt of free school meals a cash grant of £520 until the programme is fully rolled out. u003cbr>* Publish a new four-year delivery plan to lift children out of poverty, backed by a £50m fundu003cbr>* Explore the transition to a four-day-week with a £10m fund to allow companies to pilot and measure its benefits”,”party_1_issue_10″:”* Invest £3.5bn to deliver 100,000 affordable homes by 2032u003cbr>* Support our communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoodsu003cbr>* Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulationu003cbr>* Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping”,”party_1_issue_11″:”* Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland’s rail services by 2035u003cbr>* Provide free bikes for all children of school age who cannot afford them, remove the majority of fossil fuel buses from public transport by 2023 and create a greener, more affordable railwayu003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22u003cbr>* Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling”,”party_1_issue_12″:”* Undertake a review of Scotland’s prosecution system u003cbr>* Ensure that every child victim/witness will have access to a safe space based on the European Barnahus Model by 2025 u003cbr>* Appoint a victims’ commissioner to provide an independent voice for victims and witnesses and review the provision of victim servicesu003cbr>* Establish a new multi-year £100m funding stream over three years to support frontline services and focus on prevention of violence against women and girls from school onwards”,”party_2″:”Scottish Conservatives”,”party_2_website”:”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”,”party_2_colour”:”#0575C9″,”party_2_leader_1″:”Douglas Ross”,”party_2_issue_1″:”* End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr>* Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr>* A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr>* A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities”,”party_2_issue_2″:”* £600m to tackle the NHS backlog in 2021-22u003cbr>* £40m to NHS staff wellbeing this year including rest facilities and mental health servicesu003cbr>* £120m into a catch-up premium for every Scottish school pupilu003cbr>* Delay the introduction of any new non-Covid related regulations on businesses to April 2023u003cbr>* £500 for every Scottish adult to retrain for work each yearu003cbr>* Tougher sentences for fraud following an increase during the pandemic”,”party_2_issue_3″:”* Oppose a second referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Give the Scottish Parliament the tools it needs to properly scrutinise governmentu003cbr>* Bring forward proposals to allow voters to recall MSPs in exceptional circumstancesu003cbr>* Support a freeze in MSP and ministerial pay for the next five yearsu003cbr>* Support a reduction in the Cabinet from 12 to six”,”party_2_issue_4″:”* Fund for full fibre broadband to every home by 2027u003cbr>* Introduce a 10-working day national standard for all business support grant applications to be processedu003cbr>* Maintain the poundage rate freeze until the 2023 revaluationu003cbr>* 25% rates relief to businesses in 2022-23 u003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Exporting Institute for trade expertiseu003cbr>* Scrap parking charges to encourage local shopping”,”party_2_issue_5″:”* Allocate £1bn of attainment funding to all schools over five yearsu003cbr>* Oppose any cancellation of examsu003cbr>* Review the quality of teacher training and recruit 3,000 teachers over the next parliamentu003cbr>* Allow every primary school child to access a free school lunch and breakfastu003cbr>* Create a Rural Teacher Fund to attract teachers to work in rural areasu003cbr>* Introduce a dedicated STEM teacher in every primary schoolu003cbr>* Introduce a “subject guarantee” to pupils that allows them all to take at least seven subjects in S4″,”party_2_issue_6″:”* Increase annual NHS funding by at least £2bn by 2025-26, based on current estimatesu003cbr>* Increase medical school training in line with future need, prioritising people who live in Scotlandu003cbr>* Invest at least 11% of the overall NHS budget into general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Increase mental health funding to 10% of the frontline health budgetu003cbr>* Maintain local democratic accountability of the social care system and avoid “unnecessary” structural reformsu003cbr>* Review the provision of drug treatment and recovery services before the end of the year”,”party_2_issue_7″:”* Create a “global Britain” now that the country has left the EUu003cbr>* Negotiate a deal with the UK government to decide the future of the fishing industry”,”party_2_issue_8″:”* Establish a £25m Cleaner Seas Fund to take harmful products including plastics out of the seasu003cbr>* End peat extraction and aim to restore peatland to 20,000 hectares by 2024-25u003cbr>* Bring forward a new Animal Welfare Bill which would ban the use of electric shock collars and the sale of dogs with cropped earsu003cbr>* Create Scotland’s third national park in Gallowayu003cbr>* Bring forward a Circular Economy Bill to help Scotland achieve net-zero emissions by 2045u003cbr>* Support the UK government’s North Sea Transition Deal”,”party_2_issue_9″:”* Use devolved powers to target “specific” groups in receipt of the UK government’s £20 per week increase to Universal Creditu003cbr>* Free school lunches and breakfasts for all children in primary schoolu003cbr>* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Introduce a taper rate to the Carer Allowance so that carers do not lose all of their allowance if they earn more than the limitu003cbr>* End rough sleeping by 2026 by investing £10.8m in a Housing First programmeu003cbr>* Create a government-owned company to give disabled people work experience and skills to help them secure long-term employment”,”party_2_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 new affordable homes with 40,000 of these in the social rented sectoru003cbr>* Invest £50m in the Rural Housing Fundu003cbr>* £2.5bn over the next five years on energy efficiency in homes and buildingsu003cbr>* Introduce Compulsory Sales Orders for long-term unoccupied properties in Scotlandu003cbr>* Ban the use of combustible cladding in Scotlandu003cbr>* Permanently increase the threshold for paying Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) to £250,000″,”party_2_issue_11″:”* Rebuild local railways where it would make “economic sense”u003cbr>* Expand the M8 to three lanes and upgrade the whole A1 to a dual carriagewayu003cbr>* Invest £200m to repair potholesu003cbr>* Deliver a national charging infrastructure by 2025 for electric vehiclesu003cbr>* Introduce a Scottish Smart Travel Card for passengers to use on all types of domestic transport in Scotlandu003cbr>* Scrap Caledonian Maritime Assets and introduce long-term contracts for ferry operators”,”party_2_issue_12″:”* Bring in a Victims Law which would include an end to the not proven verdict u003cbr>* Introduce a Local Policing Act which would include reinstating policy scrutiny boards across Scotlandu003cbr>* Double the maximum sentence for assaults on police and other emergency workers u003cbr>* Introduce whole-life sentences, end the presumption against short sentences and end automatic early releasesu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Bill and introduce a Protection of Free Speech Billu003cbr>* Revoke prisoners’ right to vote”,”party_3″:”Scottish Labour”,”party_3_website”:”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”,”party_3_colour”:”#E91D0E”,”party_3_leader_1″:”Anas Sarwar”,”party_3_issue_1″:”* Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr>* Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr>* Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr>* Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas”,”party_3_issue_2″:”* Deliver a national plan for recovery that has five key themes: jobs recovery, NHS recovery, education recovery, community recovery and climate recovery”,”party_3_issue_3″:”* Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr>* Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr>* Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr>* Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework”,”party_3_issue_4″:”* Guarantee job or training opportunities following the pandemic by investing in a national training fund and investing in Scotland’s infrastructure u003cbr>* Boost economic growth by repurposing Scottish Enterprise as a business recovery agency focussing on a restart fund and transition fundu003cbr>* Create a community recovery fund to invest in local areas and introduce specific programmes aimed at regenerating the high streetu003cbr>* Establish a Better Business Scotland certification scheme for businesses who want to work with the public sector to ensure they meet high standards, and make sure no publicly procured contract uses zero-hours contractsu003cbr>* Restructure the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide funding for new ideas, offer investment for “capital for good” projects and support businesses transition to green and digital futuresu003cbr>* Reduce business rates on non-grocery bricks and mortar shops, and set up a taskforce to fully examine how business rates need to change”,”party_3_issue_5″:”* Deliver an Education Comeback Plan, including a personal tutoring programme for all ages and all pupilsu003cbr>* A resit guarantee for pupils affected by the pandemic, with the offer of a free college place to take national qualificationsu003cbr>* Provide extra digital training for staff and a digital device for every pupil, and give targeted support to households without broadband u003cbr>* A guaranteed completion opportunity for probationary teachers to ensure that they can gain registration and help to refresh the workforceu003cbr>* Implement a minimum student incomeu003cbr>* A summer comeback programme focusing on sport, outdoor activities, mental health and wellbeingu003cbr>* Prioritise vaccinations for teaching and school staff”,”party_3_issue_6″:”* An NHS recovery plan that gets services back on track and prioritises cancer treatment and careu003cbr>* Establish rapid diagnostic centres so patients can have a diagnosis within two weeks u003cbr>* Increase the mental health budget to 11% of the NHS budget, to match spending in England and Wales, and establish dedicated mental health A&Es in every health board areau003cbr>* Improve access to mental health support with a new referral and triage service and ensure GPs have dedicated mental health workers u003cbr>* Create a national care service u003cbr>* A real pay rise for NHS staff and raising social carers’ pay to £15 an hour, with an immediate rise to £12u003cbr>* Set up baby clubs to support mums of babies born during the pandemic, offer an extra health visitor visit at 18 months, ensure women have help to breastfeed and support women with post-natal depression”,”party_3_issue_7″:”* Develop as close a relationship with the EU as possible as part of a radical redesign of the UK’s democratic institutionsru003cbr>* Explore the need to reform the immigration system so that it works for all nations and regions in the UK now that the UK has left the EU”,”party_3_issue_8″:”* Invest in energy efficiency measures for buildings across Scotlandu003cbr>* A Just Transition focused on developing the skills needed in a green recovery and protecting jobs and communities impacted by the transition to net zerou003cbr>* Develop a coherent biodiversity action plan for post-2020 for land, air and seau003cbr>* Give interest-free government loans to help more low and middle income households buy electric cars over the next two years and accelerate the roll-out of electric charging points u003cbr>* Increase active travel spending to 10% of the overall transport budget, giving priority to encouraging and enabling people to get out of their cars, onto bikes, and walk more u003cbr>* Decarbonise Scotland’s railways within 15 years, focusing on electrification, and seek to make train journeys between Scotland’s cities faster than going by car”,”party_3_issue_9″:”* Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £20 a week by the end of 2022 u003cbr>* Abolish the council tax and replace it with a fairer alternative based on property values and ability to payu003cbr>* A guaranteed public sector job for six months for every unemployed person under 25, unemployed disabled people not already on a job scheme, and the long-term unemployed u003cbr>* Create a new £500 retraining grant for people who are unemployed or on furlough, without affecting existing payments, and an extra £750 in income support for unemployed people in training.u003cbr>* Bring shoppers back to town centres with a £75 prepaid card to every adult in Scotland to be spent in non-food retail businessesu003cbr>* Roll out government funded subsidies for holiday accommodation across Scotland giving tourists every third night of accommodation free on off-peak dates”,”party_3_issue_10″:”* Build 200,000 zero carbon social homes over 10 yearsu003cbr>* Create a National Housing Agency to end the housing crisis u003cbr>* Reform the law to allow for the acquisition of land for social housing at existing use value u003cbr>* Guarantee fair rents and improve tenants’ rights in the private rented sector u003cbr>* Support people to own their own home, with specific support for young people and first-time buyers u003cbr>* End rough sleeping within the next five years”,”party_3_issue_11″:”* Place railways back into public control and increase rail connectivity between smaller towns and villages by reopening stations and restoring neglected serviceu003cbr>* Give councils authority to directly run local bus services u003cbr>* Extend free bus travel to under 25s, with a long-term goal of universal free bus travelu003cbr>* Create neighbourhoods where people can access all the services they need within a 20-minute walku003cbr>* Bring all lifeline ferry services into public hands – with investment in a new fleet of ships fit for the future – and make ferry travel free for under 25s”,”party_3_issue_12″:”* Restore the connections between the police force and local communities and end further centralisationu003cbr>* Invest in specialist staff to rebalance the workforce and increase the number of officers in local divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr>* Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr>* Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr>* Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court”,”party_4″:”Scottish Greens”,”party_4_website”:”https://greens.scot”,”party_4_colour”:”#5FB25F”,”party_4_leader_1″:”Patrick Harvie”,”party_4_leader_2″:”Lorna Slater”,”party_4_issue_1″:”* A fair and green recovery from the pandemicu003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with direct investment in transport, warm homes and renewable energyu003cbr>* Re-join the European Union as an independent country”,”party_4_issue_2″:”* Introduce a universal isolation grant to support people isolating because of an infectious disease such as Covid-19u003cbr>* Launch a public inquiry into the Scottish government’s response to the Covid pandemicu003cbr>* Develop robust PPE procurement and ensure fair access to treatment and rehabilitation for people with long Covidu003cbr>* Use a one-off windfall tax on profits made by larger companies as a result of the pandemic to rebalance the economy and support recovery”,”party_4_issue_3″:”* Support a referendum on Scottish independence in the next parliamentary term, and build the Green Yes campaignu003cbr>* Encourage further devolution of powers from Westminster to Holyrood such as energy and employment lawsu003cbr>* In the event of Scottish independence, introduce taxes on the wealthiest members of society, luxury goods and carbon emissions from corporations”,”party_4_issue_4″:”* Phase in a four-day working weeku003cbr>* Introduce a 1% annual “millionaires tax” on wealth and assets above £1m – including property, land, pensions and other assetsu003cbr>* Scrap council tax and replace it with a residential property tax related to property valueu003cbr>* Support the partial replacement of corporation tax at the UK level with a carbon tax that increases over time in line with our climate targetsu003cbr>* Replace air passenger duty with a frequent flyer levy, where passengers pay increasing sums for flights after their first return in 12 months – but excluding domestic flights in the Highlands and islands”,”party_4_issue_5″:”* Introduce year-round free school meals for all pupils including breakfast u003cbr>* Recruit 5,500 additional permanent teachers and 2,500 more additional needs teachers, and reduce class sizes to a maximum of 20 pupilsu003cbr>* Make an extra year of funding available for students who need it, for example those who need to repeat a year because of the pandemicu003cbr>* Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a kindergarten stage for three to six year oldsu003cbr>* End P1-S3 Scottish National Standardised Assessments and end homework in primary schools. In secondary schools, expand continuous assessment of coursework and reduce the role of exams.”,”party_4_issue_6″:”* Commit at least 11% of health spending to general practice by the end of the next Parliamentu003cbr>* Give 10% of frontline health spend to mental health and put £161m into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services by 2026u003cbr>* Introduce “safe and compassionate” laws that allow terminally ill adults the right to an assisted deathu003cbr>* End competitive tendering in the care systemu003cbr>* Remove the rule that two doctors must approve abortions and retain the provision for abortions at home introduced during the pandemic”,”party_4_issue_7″:”* Campaign with the support of the European Green Party to re-join the EU as an independent nationru003cbr>* Re-join the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programmeru003cbr>* Establish low carbon transport connections with Europe”,”party_4_issue_8″:”* Source at least 70% of the onshore wind supply chain domesticallyu003cbr>* Invest in marine renewables and give financial support for innovation and to support early stage tidal turbines u003cbr>* Call on the UK government to stop issuing new licences for oil and gas exploration and development and end subsidies and tax breaks for the industryu003cbr>* Ban the importation of shale and fracked gas for processing in Scotland, and ensure the Scottish government can deliver the transition to net-zero u003cbr>* Introduce Low Emission Zones with immediate effect in all areas that breach air quality limits”,”party_4_issue_9″:”* Introduce a Universal Basic Income pilot by negotiating the necessary powers from Westminster – and if refused, fund smaller-scale, more limited pilots that do not require powersu003cbr>* Support the transition to a four-day week with no loss of payu003cbr>* Accelerate the roll-out of the new Scottish Child Payment and double it to £20 per week per childu003cbr>* Increase grants for new born children in low income families and school clothing grants by £100u003cbr>* Give funds to local authorities so they can introduce grants to mitigate the effects of the benefit cap”,”party_4_issue_10″:”* Invest £500m each year to ensure heating homes and buildings meets climate goals u003cbr>* Introduce green heat grants for households to replace fossil fuel boilers with green alternatives, principally heat pumps, with the aim of installing 500,000 by 2030, and ban new fossil fuel boilers from 2025 for buildings off the gas grid, and 2028 for all buildingsu003cbr>* Establish a regulator for the private rented sector and ban winter evictionsu003cbr>* Support the building of 120,000 homes by 2032 – 70% of which should be for social rent – and invest in innovative public housing for older peopleu003cbr>* End homelessness”,”party_4_issue_11″:”* Cease funding road building projects that add capacity to the network and redirect funds toward safety improvements, maintenance of existing existing infrastructure, public transport, cycling and walking u003cbr>* Invest in cycling, walking so everyone in towns and cities to be able to get what they need within a 15-minute walku003cbr>* Ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2026 and introduce workplace parking levies, congestion and parking charges, and a 20mph default speed limit in built-up areas u003cbr>* Bring the rail network, bus companies and ferry routes into public ownership”,”party_4_issue_12″:”* Abolish the not proven verdictu003cbr>* Reform prisons, including more funding for alternatives to custody and special provisions for offenders who are mentally ill and for women who are pregnant or have young childrenu003cbr>* Support full integration of British Transport Police with Police Scotlandu003cbr>* Provide legal aid to all domestic abuse victims including in civil cases, decriminalise sex work, increase funding for Scottish Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis Scotland and make funding available to the human trafficking awareness group TARA”,”party_5″:”Scottish Liberal Democrats”,”party_5_website”:”https://www.scotlibdems.org.uk”,”party_5_colour”:”#EFAC18″,”party_5_leader_1″:”Willie Rennie”,”party_5_issue_1″:”* Put recovery first from the pandemic u003cbr>* An education bounce back plan u003cbr>* Train more mental health specialists for community centres, hospitals, workplaces and schools u003cbr>* Tackle the climate emergency with a green jobs revolution u003cbr>* Oppose a second independence referendum, given there’s a pandemic”,”party_5_issue_2″:”* Put education at the heart of the recovery from Covid u003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staffu003cbr>* A public inquiry to learn the lessons of the pandemic for the future”,”party_5_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendum u003cbr>* Work to reform the UK to a federal future”,”party_5_issue_4″:”* A new fiscal framework to ensure local councils get a fair share of the budgetru003cbr>* New pay audits to ensure fair opportunities for people from ethnic minorities and disabled people ru003cbr>* Scottish workers given the best chance to manufacture offshore wind turbinesru003cbr>* Increase the range of jobs and careers available to people in rural areas”,”party_5_issue_5″:”* A programme to help children bounce back in education including an expansion of outdoor learning, increased provision of school trips and new support assistantsu003cbr>* Play-based education until age seven based on the Nordic modelu003cbr>* The legal right to defer Primary 1 and have it replaced with funded early learning and childcare starting this Augustu003cbr>* Every qualified teacher guaranteed a job with a minimum starting salary of £30,000, as well as a review of workloads and career opportunities for existing teachersu003cbr>* End national testing of five year olds”,”party_5_issue_6″:”* An urgent plan to put recovery first for the NHSru003cbr>* A bigger range of specialists, diagnosis and treatment in local communitiesru003cbr>* A target of 15% of new health spending going to mental health and train more mental health specialists, including a grant of £5,000 for students undertaking counselling coursesru003cbr>* Treat drug misuse as a health problem rather than prosecuting those who experience it ru003cbr>* Promote preventative health to take the pressure off the NHSru003cbr>* National standards and fair pay for all social care staff”,”party_5_issue_7″:”* Support a close relationship with Europe”,”party_5_issue_8″:”* Move one million homes to zero emission heating by 2030u003cbr>* Invest in low carbon heat networksu003cbr>* Double the programmes to end fuel povertyu003cbr>* Invest in new skills for a just transition from fossil fuel industryu003cbr>* New national parks, and new woodlands close to where people live”,”party_5_issue_9″:”* Double the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per weeku003cbr>* Develop a system of Universal Basic Incomeu003cbr>* A job guarantee for 16-24 year oldsu003cbr>* 2,000 paid graduate internships with small businessesu003cbr>* New £5,000 Scottish Training Bonds to help people change careers”,”party_5_issue_10″:”* Build 60,000 affordable homes to help address homelessnessu003cbr>* Help to Renovate loans to bring derelict homes back into use”,”party_5_issue_11″:”* Reopen railway lines and move away from fossil fuels on the networku003cbr>* Give the public confidence in electric vehicles by progress towards a network of well-maintained rapid chargersu003cbr>* Support active travel, making it easier to make safe journeys by bike or on footu003cbr>* Create single through-tickets and swipe cards that work for buses, trains and ferries across Scotlandu003cbr>* New local powers to integrate all forms of transport and to control local bus services”,”party_5_issue_12″:”* Increase the influence of communities over the way they are policed and give Police Scotland more support u003cbr>* Improve rehabilitation services for people leaving prison so they are less likely to re-offend u003cbr>* Get more mental health support workers alongside the policeu003cbr>* Reform Fatal Accident Inquiries to stop delays and learn the lessons more quickly u003cbr>* Establish a cross-party commission to recommend urgent steps to prevent violence against women and girls”,”party_6″:”Alba”,”party_6_website”:”https://www.albaparty.org/”,”party_6_colour”:””,”party_6_backup_colour”:””,”party_6_leader_1″:”Alex Salmond”,”party_6_issue_1″:”* Independence for Scotland as an immediate necessity, and overwhelming priority, achieved by democratic means through a vote of people resident in Scotlandu003cbr>* The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr>* The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law”,”party_6_issue_2″:”* Set up a powerful independent inquiry to find out what Scotland must learn from its successes and mistakes during Covid”,”party_6_issue_3″:”* Aims to achieve a “supermajority” of pro-independence MSPs in the election to deliver an overwhelming Scottish Parliamentary vote to begin negotiations on independence.u003cbr>* Pressure the new Scottish government to immediately start negotiations with Westminster on another referendum and the terms of independence, and lay a motion at Holyrood to deliver this instruction ru003cbr>* Include a formal demand for a section 30 order in the negotiating position ru003cbr>* If a section 30 order is refused, call for the Scottish government to urgently pass a referendum bill and be ready to fight it in the courts if need be ru003cbr>* Set up an independence commission to consider how to build an independent Scotlandru003cbr>* Propose a written constitution and a new Scottish currency to be introduced at an early date following independence with Sterling still used as a dual currency over a period of time”,”party_6_issue_4″:”* Rebuild Scotland’s domestic business base by letting the Scottish National Investment bank access the global capitalu003cbr>* A major expansion of available capital from the Scottish National Investment Bank to offer finance from start-up companies emerging from universities and collegesu003cbr>* Mobilise capital through the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance socially rented housing and other key infrastructure projectsu003cbr>* Reframe public sector purchasing and procurement to favour Scottish and locally based business u003cbr>* Introduce a development land tax in Scotland, with carefully calibrated exemptions to protect Scotland’s farming community but aimed at bringing assets, currently hoarded, into productive use”,”party_6_issue_5″:”* Double the Educational Maintenance Allowanceu003cbr>* Free school breakfasts and lunches for nursery, primary and secondary pupils using high quality Scottish produce centrally purchased with menus devised by leading Scottish chefs and nutritionists – every week of the yearu003cbr>* A “bonfire of paperwork” for teachers to free them of bureaucracy and allow them to focus on teaching u003cbr>* Extra support for learning and behaviour support to help pupils recover from the pandemic u003cbr>* Sports and gym facilities to be provided free to the under 18s”,”party_6_issue_6″:”* Build a new generation of world-class modern care homes which are better and safer for residents and more efficient in running costsru003cbr>* To bring forward and invest in a catch-up programme for all the NHS activity which was cancelled because of Covid ru003cbr>* A mental health recovery plan, recognising the impact of the pandemic on the mental wellbeing of the nationru003cbr>* To streamline management structures in the NHS and create greater frontline staff involvement in management”,”party_6_issue_7″:”* A proposal for Scotland to join the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and through EFTA admission to the European Economic Area while maintaining the Common Travel Area and potentially a customs union with the rest of the UKu003cbr>* This would serve as either an interim position from which to negotiate EU membership or a long term proposal depending on the view of the Scottish people.”,”party_6_issue_8″:”* Create a Scottish National Renewables Corporation to finance the transition from a carbon based economy, and give the SNRC an automatic shareholding of all licensed energy projects of 30 MW and aboveu003cbr>* The Scottish National Renewables Corporation will make sure that this time a far greater proportion of those major wind farms will embrace public and community ownership and that many more of the components from which they’re built are made in Scotlandu003cbr>* Major programme to reinsulate houses u003cbr>* Commission a roadmap on how Scotland will electrify its transport network u003cbr>* Support the transition away from fossil fuels by replacing corporation tax with a wellhead production tax on the offshore oil industry”,”party_6_issue_9″:”* Campaign for WASPI womenru003cbr>* Introduce a £500 annual payment to all low-income households ru003cbr>* Introduce a legal right to food to make tackling food poverty a legally enforceable requirement for public agencies”,”party_6_issue_10″:”* Set up a Scottish national housing company to build houses to high standards including high environmental standards ru003cbr>* Buy land at the best price so the houses can be made available for the lowest possible rentru003cbr>* Build a major retraining programme into the heart of the Housing Company to train people in Scotland to fill the gaps in the construction workforce, and build the houses out of Scottish timber”,”party_6_issue_11″:”* Modernise and expand domestic ferry services u003cbr>* Fund transitioning Scotland’s taxi fleet to electric vehicles, and bring the level of grant provided to taxi drivers at least in line with Northern Ireland”,”party_6_issue_12″:”* Give women the right to maintain their sex based protections as set out in the Equality Act 2010″,”party_7″:”All for Unity”,”party_7_website”:”https://www.alliance4unity.uk”,”party_7_colour”:””,”party_7_backup_colour”:””,”party_7_lead_candidate_1″:”George Galloway”,”party_7_issue_1″:”* Stand up to the SNP against Scottish independence u003cbr>* Seek to form a government of ‘national unity’ in favour of the Union u003cbr>* Work with any and all pro-Union parties to stop nationalists from holding a second independence referendum”,”party_7_issue_2″:”* Scotland needs time to rebuild after the pandemic and Brexitu003cbr>* Introduce a personalised tutoring and mentoring programme to help pupils catch up after Covid u003cbr>* Emergency funding for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical NHS operations”,”party_7_issue_3″:”* A Clarity Act to set down the conditions for granting another referendum and the rules for holding itu003cbr>* No referendum unless a majority of all Scottish adults vote for pro-independence parties in the electionu003cbr>* All Scots living elsewhere in the UK should be eligible to vote in any referendum on independenceu003cbr>* Scottish regions who vote No in a referendum should have the choice of remaining in the UK or joining the new independent Scotlandu003cbr>* Scottish government should be renamed as the Scottish Executive and more powers should be devolved to the regions”,”party_7_issue_4″:”* Reverse the trend of declining inward investment in Scotland by providing a strong voice within UK initiatives and using trade missions within the FCO and British Councilu003cbr>* Create a Small Business Recovery unit to safeguard small business interestsu003cbr>* Scrap the Scottish National Investment Bank and the Scottish National Infrastructure Company”,”party_7_issue_5″:”* Develop national interventions for addressing the attainment gapu003cbr>* Introduce individualised tutoring and mentoring programmes to help pupils catch up after Covidu003cbr>* A Scottish education recovery programme, putting literacy and numeracy at the centre of the learning process againu003cbr>* Giving Scottish schools more autonomy like their English counterpartsu003cbr>* Replace Education Scotland with an independent inspectorate, reform the SQA and radically overhaul the Curriculum for Excellence”,”party_7_issue_6″:”* Emergency funding and organisational prioritisation for a post-Covid taskforce to clear the backlog of cancer screenings and other critical operationsu003cbr>* Increase the number of students in Scottish medical schools who are domiciled in Scotlandu003cbr>* Increase recruitment and retention in general practiceu003cbr>* Increase the provision of mental health services for all, particularly young peopleu003cbr>* Give carer workers a reasonable wage to stop high turnover and make caring a rewarding careeru003cbr>* Increase funding for drug rehabilitation centres”,”party_7_issue_7″:”* Resist any attempt to remove Scotland from the European Convention on Human Rights”,”party_7_issue_8″:”* A pause in the afforestation of the uplands to put in place robust legislation that protects Scotland’s iconic heather moorlandsu003cbr>* Encourage regenerative agriculture and encourage farmers to transition to carbon-neutral grazing systemsu003cbr>* Campaign for discrete continental-style cycle lanes to be incorporated into any new developmentu003cbr>* Force retailers to use biodegradable packaging unless a clear need for plastic can be proven”,”party_7_issue_9″:”* An independent commission to examine optimal tax rates and make recommendationsu003cbr>* Skills funding should be more aligned to industry need”,”party_7_issue_10″:”* Push for any quantative easing by the Treasury to be used to fund projects to increase the housing stocku003cbr>* Encourage the building of new, low-cost starter homesu003cbr>* Campaign for more high street shops to be turned back into housing to regenerate communities in town and city centresu003cbr>* End homelessness by allowing local authorities to convert empty town centre shops into hostels”,”party_7_issue_11″:”* A review of the country’s major road network with a view to supporting fishing, agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, manufacturing and heavy engineeringu003cbr>* Improve the A82, dual the A1 from Edinburgh to the Border and find a solution to landslides on the Rest and Be Thankfulu003cbr>* A road link between the Mull of Galloway and Northern Ireland and upgrade the A75 to strengthen the economy of the south of Scotlandu003cbr>* An urgent review of ferry services in the west of Scotland”,”party_7_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Billu003cbr>* Remove all political links from the role of Lord Advocateu003cbr>* Verdicts in Scottish courts would be changed to “proven” or “not proven”u003cbr>* Make Police Scotland locally accountable again by having a chief constable in every former constabulary area”,”party_8″:”Freedom Alliance”,”party_8_website”:”https://freedomalliance.co.uk”,”party_8_colour”:””,”party_8_backup_colour”:””,”party_8_leader_1″:”Carol Dobson”,”party_8_issue_1″:”* Oppose the government lockdown restrictionsu003cbr>* Oppose any and all curtailments of the liberties and human rights of free individualsu003cbr>* Reduce the role of the state in the management of our livesu003cbr>* Government should be devolved and decentralised to the smallest practicable level and direct democracy should be utilised to return decision making to the people”,”party_8_issue_2″:”* Closing down the country in response to a coronavirus is a dramatic and completely unnecessary overreactionu003cbr>* Quarantining the country is not the way to deal with the virusu003cbr>* It is not the government’s place to impose health measures on the populaceu003cbr>* People should have the absolute right to leave home whenever they choose, to make a living and operate business premisesu003cbr>* Opposed to the compulsory use of facemasks in schools, and to the idea of vaccination mandates or “vaccine passports””,”party_8_issue_3″:”* Freedom Alliance MSPs will abstain on any vote on IndyRef2 in the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Should IndyRef2 happen Freedom Alliance MSPs and members will be free to campaign on whichever side they choose”,”party_8_issue_4″:”* Seek to introduce legislation to more effectively tax big online corporationsu003cbr>* A levy a Covid-19 ‘windfall tax’ on the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturersu003cbr>* End the immunity from prosecution granted to the pharmaceutical industry by the UK governmentu003cbr>* End deficit spending at the UK government level. All government expenditure should be financed by tax receipts.”,”party_8_issue_5″:”* A multi-faceted approach to help children regain the ground lost over the last year through post-school education in vocational courses and apprenticeships and also via decreased pupil to teacher ratiosu003cbr>* The additional teaching staff required to be recruited from retired teachers, former teaching assistants or people currently undergoing teacher training. u003cbr>* Oppose any more school, further and higher education institution closures and instead push for a permanent return to face-to-face teaching. u003cbr>* Oppose any moves towards mask mandates, mandatory Covid-19 testing or “vaccine passports”. The party will ensure to the best of its ability that all pupils, students and parents are fully informed of all the issues relating to masks and Covid-19 testing and that the measures are voluntary.”,”party_8_issue_6″:”* Push for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate what has happened in care homes, the NHS and corridors of power since the beginning of 2020u003cbr>* Push for more funding for scientific studies aimed at finding ways to improve the nations’ health via natural and alternative means to expand upon existing recommendations regarding eating a balanced diet and taking enough exercise in the fresh airu003cbr>* Significant increases in Vitamin D3 testing with appropriate management and supplementation”,”party_8_issue_7″:”* Respects the democratic will of the British people and accepts the result of the 2016 Brexit referendumu003cbr>* Will seek to build relationships and alliances with elected representatives from EU member states and countries around the world opposed to the disproportionate lockdown measures being imposed upon the people of their nations”,”party_8_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_9″:”* Oppose any further extensions of the furlough scheme and the costly propping up of non-viable jobs and businessesu003cbr>* Reach out to concerned and like-minded experts, business leaders and stakeholders willing to help us find the best way forward to create viable jobs and rebuild our shattered economy”,”party_8_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_8_issue_11″:”* Fight to regain Scots’ basic human right to unfettered freedom of movement within the UKu003cbr>* Try to enable Scots to travel abroad without requiring “vaccine passports” or Covid-19 tests”,”party_8_issue_12″:”* Policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9″:”Reform UK”,”party_9_website”:”https://reformuk.scot”,”party_9_colour”:””,”party_9_backup_colour”:””,”party_9_leader_1″:”Michelle Ballantyne”,”party_9_issue_1″:”* Return of Freedomsu003cbr>* Restart the Economy u003cbr>* Restore Education Standards u003cbr>* Rebuild the NHSu003cbr>* Reform Holyrood”,”party_9_issue_2″:”* No more lockdownsu003cbr>* No domestic vaccine passports”,”party_9_issue_3″:”* Oppose independence and a second referendumu003cbr>* Full audited review of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish government u003cbr>* Devolve further powers to local government”,”party_9_issue_4″:”* A costed radical plan for economic reform that will make Scots up to £1,500 better offu003cbr>* Scrap Air Passenger Dutyu003cbr>* Raise income tax threshold to £20,000″,”party_9_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum for Excellence and return direction of learning to teachersu003cbr>* Champion play-based learning for early yearsu003cbr>* Introduce a curriculum that will give equal weight to academic and vocational learning”,”party_9_issue_6″:”* Create an NHS Reserve Force that works similar to Army reservesu003cbr>* Put the priority on standards of patient care and job satisfaction”,”party_9_issue_7″:”* Seize all opportunities that Brexit will present”,”party_9_issue_8″:”* Environment policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_9″:”* Work and benefits policies will added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_10″:”* Housing policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_11″:”* Transport policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_9_issue_12″:”* Repeal the Hate Crime Act”,”party_10″:”Scottish Family Party”,”party_10_website”:”https://scottishfamily.org”,”party_10_colour”:””,”party_10_backup_colour”:””,”party_10_leader_1″:”Richard Lucas”,”party_10_issue_1″:”* Support stable family life as family instability currently fuels a host of social problemsu003cbr>* Promote marriage as a means of strengthening families, through education, the tax system and wider cultureu003cbr>* Protect the lives of the unborn from the ongoing tragedy of abortion, and the elderly from the pressure of assisted suicideu003cbr>* Protect our basic freedoms, including freedom of speechu003cbr>* Restore high standards to education”,”party_10_issue_2″:”* A swift return to full normality, with the permanent lifting of all lockdown restrictions”,”party_10_issue_3″:”* Neutral on the benefits or otherwise of Scottish independence. u003cbr>* Oppose a referendum in the next parliament because more time needs to pass since the last one and pandemic recovery necessitates a period of stability”,”party_10_issue_4″:”* Boost the economy by removing all Covid restrictions to allow businesses to flourish again”,”party_10_issue_5″:”* Scrap the Curriculum or Excellence and replace it with a clear academic curriculumu003cbr>* Maintain exams as an objective and fair measure of attainmentu003cbr>* Empower teachers to maintain good discipline, using effective punishments where necessaryu003cbr>* End indoctrination into left wing/liberal/progressive political causes in schoolsu003cbr>* Replace “vulgar and corrupting” sex education with facts-based lessons presenting positive moral principles. u003cbr>* Stop teaching transgender ideology”,”party_10_issue_6″:”* A well-funded and efficiently managed NHSu003cbr>* Stop all transgender “treatments” for under 16su003cbr>* Medical confidentiality and decision-making powers at 16 instead of the current 12 years oldu003cbr>* Addiction treatments focusing on cure rather than perpetual managementu003cbr>* Council tax relief for families taking elderly relatives into their own home”,”party_10_issue_7″:”* Neutral on membership of the EU, but respect the result of the 2016 referendum”,”party_10_issue_8″:”* Conserve the natural beauty of Scotland, its flora and faunau003cbr>* Practical, sustainable and carefully costed measures to tackle carbon emissionsu003cbr>* Every means of energy generation should be considered on its merits and none dismissed on ideological grounds”,”party_10_issue_9″:”* Remove the discrimination against full time parents currently embodied in the tax and benefits system, helping families to choose the work/home balance that they desireu003cbr>* Oppose social engineering to close the gender pay gapu003cbr>* Support meritocracy, not quotas or other such unfair and discriminatory employment practices”,”party_10_issue_10″:”* Enable families to buy their own homes by encouraging more new family housing developments on brownfield sites”,”party_10_issue_11″:”* Cheap and efficient public transport alongside ongoing affordable car useu003cbr>* Extend safe cycleways by integration into pavement areasu003cbr>* Explore the potential of river transport on some of Scotland’s great waterways”,”party_10_issue_12″:”* Stop the politicisation of the police as it undermines confidence in their impartialityu003cbr>* Police pursuing criminals instead of pedalling politically correct slogans and attempting to ensure people are being kind on Twitter. u003cbr>* Just sentences: there should be a punitive and deterrent element in sentencingu003cbr>* Protect the identity of the accused until charges are brought, at the earliest”,”party_11″:”UKIP”,”party_11_website”:”https://www.ukip.org/scotland”,”party_11_colour”:””,”party_11_backup_colour”:””,”party_11_leader_1″:”Donald Mackay”,”party_11_issue_1″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendumsu003cbr>* Repeal the Hate Crime Actu003cbr>* Create a business scheme to allow veterans to set up their own business”,”party_11_issue_2″:”* Covid-19 policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_3″:”* Scrap the Scottish Parliamentu003cbr>* Oppose Scottish independence and any further independence referendums”,”party_11_issue_4″:”* Economy policies will be added as they are announced”,”party_11_issue_5″:”* Education policies will be added as they are 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u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_national_party’ href=”https://www.snp.org”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_conservatives”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_2 name=”scottish_conservatives”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Conservatives party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/scottish_conservatives.png?v=4″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Scottish Conservatives u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Douglas Ross u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Douglas Ross icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/douglas_ross.png” />n u003c/div>n n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Key policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> End division and rebuild the country from the pandemicu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Oppose another referendum on Scottish independenceu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> A school catch-up plan comprising a nationwide tutoring scheme and hiring 3,000 extra teachersu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> A law guaranteeing the funding the Scottish government would have to pay to local authorities u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Covid-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> 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xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 70 70″>u003ctitle> Independence icon u003c/title>u003cdefs>u003cstyle>.cls-1{fill:#fff;}u003c/style>u003c/defs>u003crect width=”5.92″ height=”70″/>u003crect y=”3.8″ width=”70″ height=”47.21″/>u003cpolygon class=”cls-1″ points=”64.08 9.8 64.08 9.8 57.42 9.8 35.49 23.15 13.57 9.8 6.9 9.8 6.9 9.8 6.9 13.86 28.82 27.2 6.9 40.55 6.9 44.6 13.57 44.6 35.49 31.26 57.42 44.6 64.08 44.6 64.08 40.55 42.16 27.2 64.08 13.86 64.08 9.8″/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Oppose a second referendum on independenceu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Give the Scottish Parliament the tools it needs to properly scrutinise governmentu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Bring forward proposals to allow voters to recall MSPs in exceptional circumstancesu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support a freeze in MSP and ministerial pay for the next five yearsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support a reduction in the Cabinet from 12 to six u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_4>n u003ch4> Economy u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 68.85 68.85″>u003ctitle> Economy icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”economy-2″ data-name=”economy” d=”M63.72,53.89v7.65H32.65V55.09c3.53-1.11,5.25-3.35,5.25-6.63a8,8,0,0,0-.34-2.92h-6V40.2h4.56a16.6,16.6,0,0,1-.86-5c0-7.32,6-11.79,15.66-11.79a26.84,26.84,0,0,1,11.54,2.41v8a19.65,19.65,0,0,0-9.81-2.66c-5.25,0-7.83,2-7.83,5.5a14,14,0,0,0,.43,3.53H56.49v5.34h-9.9a15.1,15.1,0,0,1,.18,1.89,7.22,7.22,0,0,1-3.45,6.46ZM48.57,78.5C68,78.5,83,63.53,83,44.07S68,9.65,48.57,9.65s-34.42,15-34.42,34.42S29,78.5,48.57,78.5Z” transform=”translate(-14.15 -9.65)”/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Fund for full fibre broadband to every home by 2027u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce a 10-working day national standard for all business support grant applications to be processedu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Maintain the poundage rate freeze until the 2023 revaluationu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> 25% rates relief to businesses in 2022-23 u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Introduce a Scottish Exporting Institute for trade expertiseu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Scrap parking charges to encourage local shopping u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_5>n u003ch4> Education u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 85 56.64″>u003ctitle> Education icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”Education-2″ data-name=”Education” 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u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_conservatives’ href=”https://www.scottishconservatives.com”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_labour”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_3 name=”scottish_labour”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Labour party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/scottish_labour.png?v=4″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Scottish Labour u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Anas Sarwar u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Anas Sarwar icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/anas_sarwar.png” />n u003c/div>n n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Key policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Guarantee a job for every young Scot u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest in the NHS to get cancer treatment back on track, improve mental health, and give carers the pay they deserveu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Deliver a comeback plan for education u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Invest in green jobs and seize Scotland’s hosting of COP26 to champion an ambitious climate justice planu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Create a community recovery fund to invest in local 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64.08 44.6 64.08 40.55 42.16 27.2 64.08 13.86 64.08 9.8″/>u003c/svg> u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Labour will not support a second independence referendum in the next five years, while the country is focused on recovery from Covid-19 u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Instead, it believes more powers should be given to local councils u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support further devolution of powers to Holyrood including borrowing and employment rights u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Renegotiate the Fiscal Framework u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_4>n u003ch4> Economy u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 68.85 68.85″>u003ctitle> Economy icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”economy-2″ data-name=”economy” 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Establish a Better Business Scotland certification scheme for businesses who want to work with the public sector to ensure they meet high standards, and make sure no publicly procured contract uses zero-hours contractsu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Restructure the Scottish National Investment Bank to provide funding for new ideas, offer investment for “capital for good” projects and support businesses transition to green and digital futuresu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Reduce business rates on non-grocery bricks and mortar shops, and set up a taskforce to fully examine how business rates need to change u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_5>n u003ch4> Education u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 85 56.64″>u003ctitle> Education icon u003c/title>u003cpath id=”Education-2″ data-name=”Education” 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divisions by at least 500 to reverse cuts to local policing u003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Support diversion policies that prevent vulnerable drug users being exposed to unnecessary court actionu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Deal with the backlog of 34,000 cases in the court systemu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> Improve access to justice by reforming legal aid, rolling out specialist domestic abuse courts and introducing a specialist sexual offences court u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n n u003cdiv class=”party-extra-info”>n u003ca target=”_blank” rel=”noopener nofollow” class=”link” id=’scottish_labour’ href=”https://scottishlabour.org.uk”>n See party websiten u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_greens”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_4 name=”scottish_greens”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Greens party logo” 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/>n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Alba u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Alex Salmond u003c/p>n u003cdiv class=”leader-img”>n u003cimg alt=”Alex Salmond icon” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_leaders/alex_salmond.png” />n u003c/div>n n n u003c/div> n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_1>n u003ch4> Key policies u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003cul class=”pledges-list”>n u003cli> Independence for Scotland as an immediate necessity, and overwhelming priority, achieved by democratic means through a vote of people resident in Scotlandu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The promotion of all Scottish interests, and the building of an economically successful and socially just independent country, through the pursuit of a social democratic programmeu003cbr> u003c/li>n u003cli> The acceptance by the Scottish people of a written constitution for the newly independent country; defending the rights, liberties and equality of all citizens before the law u003c/li>n u003c/ul>n u003c/div>n u003cdiv class=”party_issues” issue=issue_2>n u003ch4> Covid-19 u003c/h4>n u003cp> u003c/p>n u003csvg class=”issue-icon” xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg” viewBox=”0 0 81.77 80.79″>u003ctitle> Covid-19 icon u003c/title>u003cg id=”coronavirus-2″ data-name=”coronavirus”>u003cpath id=”Path_63148″ data-name=”Path 63148″ d=”M64.79,13.11a5.74,5.74,0,0,1-3.47-1.53L59.2,17.49a28.22,28.22,0,0,1,3.19,1.39Z” transform=”translate(-8.93 -3.79)”/>u003cpath id=”Path_63149″ data-name=”Path 63149″ d=”M17.51,53.43a5.81,5.81,0,0,1,1.32,3l5.3-2.18a22.35,22.35,0,0,1-.9-2.53Z” 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u003c/a>n u003c/div>n u003c/div>n u003c/details>n u003c/div> u003cdiv class=”expander_container scottish_family_party”>n u003cdetails class=”expander”>n u003csummary class=”expander_summary” id=party_10 name=”scottish_family_party”> n u003cdiv class=”expander_summary_content”>n u003cimg class=”party-icon” alt=”Scottish Family Party party logo” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/party_logos/scottish_family_party.png?v=4″ />n u003ch3 class=”party_name”> Scottish Family Party u003c/h3>n u003cimg class=”summary-chevron” src=”https://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/29811-elections-2021-policy-guide/scotland/assets/app-project-assets/img/chevron.svg?v=4″ alt=”” aria-hidden=”true” />n u003c/div>n u003c/summary>n u003cdiv class=”details-content”>n u003cdiv class=”leader-info party-extra-info”>n u003ch4>Leaderu003c/h4>n u003cp class=”leader-name”> Richard Lucas u003c/p>n u003cdiv 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