Increase NHS spending by over £500 million more than inflation during the next Parliament
Reform the NHS by investing £1.3 billion in health and social care partnerships, reforming primary care and increasing the number of GPs and nurses in communities.
Invest £200 million in expanding the Golden Jubilee Hospital and creating new elective treatment centres in Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee, Livingston and Edinburgh.
Put in place a new ten-year plan to transform mental health and invest £100 million to improve mental health services
Invest £100 million to improve the prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Education
Free meals for all 2, 3 and 4 year olds benefiting from new nursery provision
Implement a new National Improvement Framework for schools to drive up standards and close the attainment gap between young people from the most and least affluent backgrounds
Give more power and resources to schools, teachers and parents
Increase investment in the Scottish Attainment Fund by over £750 million, giving more money directly to headteachers
Protect free education with no tuition fees under an SNP government
Ensure by 2030 that 20% of university entrants are from the 20% most deprived communities.
Youth & Employment
Increase the number of Modern Apprenticeships by 30,000 per year to 2020
Maintain full-time equivalent college places and protect Educational Maintainence Allowances for 60,000 school and college students
Introduce new Jobs Grants for those aged between 16 and 24
Lead a national drive to increase productivity
Extend the payment of the Living Wage ensuring all care workers receive the Living Wage by October 2016 and doubling the number of accredited employers to 1000 by Autumn 2017
Transport & Infrastructure
Invest in transport infrastructure and cut Air Passenger Duty by 50% in the next Parliament
Deliver 100% superfast broadband coverage for all of Scotland by the end of the next Parliament
Housing
Invest £3 billion in the next Parliament to build 50,000 new homes of which at least 35,000 will be available for social rent
Introduce a Warm Homes Bill to tackle fuel poverty
Continue to invest in Help to Buy and Shared Equity schemes to help first-time buyers
Welfare
Increase the Carer’s Allowance so that it matches Jobseeker’s Allowance
Maintain the Winter Fuel Payment for Pensioners
Establish a new Scottish Security Agency to administer devolved benefits
Maintain the level of disability benefits and make assessment fairer
Abolish the Bedroom Tax
Establish a Maternity and Early Years Allowance to help tackle child poverty
Justice
Protect the police budget in real terms
Create a new criminal offence to tackle all forms of domestic abuse
Energy & Environment
Maintain the moratorium on fracking unless it can be proved safe for the environment, communities and public health
Bring forward a new Climate Change Bill and reduce emissions by 50% by 2020
Build upon the Land Reform Act by making land ownership more efficient
Tax
Increase the Personal Allowance of Income Tax to £12,750 and freeze rates in line with inflation
Cap council tax increases to 3% per year, increase taxation on the higher banded properties and assign a portion of income tax revenues to local government
Independence
Start to persuade a majority of people that independence is the best future for Scotland.
