Scottish election 2021: SNP manifesto at-a-glance

Nicola Sturgeon launched her party's manifesto

The SNP has unveiled its vision for Scotland ahead of the 6 May Holyrood election.

Below are the main policies from the party's manifesto. The full document can be found here.

Top priorities

• Hold a second referendum on Scottish independence

• Build 100,000 new homes by 2032, with at least 70% of these being for social rent

• Launch a National Care Service

• Oppose nuclear weapons

• Bring ScotRail into public ownership

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Covid-19

• 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 so

• Deliver a programme of booster vaccinations later this year

• Commission a public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland

• Continue using the test and protect system and the FACTS guidance

Independence

• Hold an independence referendum once the immediate Covid crisis has passed

Economy

• Invest over £33bn over the next five years in infrastructure and found a new National Infrastructure Company to manage public assets. Investments include new energy technologies, a new Monklands hospital and major rail improvements

• Invest £1bn in the Scottish National Investment Bank

• Create a £25m fund to help drive tourism recovery

• Offer £50m in funding to the winning proposal of a competition for economic transformation, as part of the delivery of a new 10-year strategy

• Create a new £20m Rural Entrepreneur Fund - providing grants of up to £10,000 to support the relocation or creation of 2,000 new businesses

• Increase investment in private sector-led research and development projects by £100m over the next five years

• Invest an additional £500m to support new jobs and reskill people for the jobs of the future

Education

• Invest a further £1bn to close the school attainment gap and recruit 3,500 additional teachers and classroom assistants

• Free school breakfasts and lunches for primary school pupils all year and for all children in state-funded special schools

• Provide every child with a device to get online, including a free internet connection and the support to use it

• Build a childcare system which provides care before and after school all year round, free for the least well-off families

• 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

• Fund the Young Person's Guarantee of a university, college, apprenticeship, training place or job for every young person

NHS and care

• Increase NHS frontline spending by at least 20% to "support and renew" the NHS recovery, increasing funding of frontline services by over £2.5bn

• Increase social care investment by 25% which will back a the creation of a National Care Service

• Offer NHS staff a 4% average pay increase

• Introduce a new national wage for care staff and national pay bargaining for the sector

• 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 health

• Create a national pharmaceutical agency for the NHS to ensure secure and sustainable supply chains for vital medicines

EU relations

• Maintain and strengthen Scotland's relationship with the EU with a view to re-joining as soon as possible

• Continue to advocate for Scotland's inclusion in the Erasmus programme

Environment

• Decarbonise the heating of one million homes by 2030 with investment of £1.6bn over five years

• Double the Climate Justice Fund to £24m over four years

• Implement a deposit return scheme for single use drinks containers next year

• Increase our targets for new woodland creation by 50%, from 12,000 hectares up to 18,000 hectares per year by 2025

• Invest £100m in a green jobs fund to support new and more opportunities for green job creation

Work and benefits

• Freeze Income Tax rates and bands and increase thresholds by a maximum of inflation

• Remove council tax for under 22s

• 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 disability

• 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

• Publish a new four-year delivery plan to lift children out of poverty, backed by a £50m fund

• Explore the transition to a four-day-week with a £10mfund to allow companies to pilot and measure its benefits

Housing

• Invest an additional £50m over the next parliamentary term to end homelessness and rough sleeping

• Invest £3.5bn to deliver 100,000 affordable homes by 2032

• Support communities to become 20-minute neighbourhoods

• Offer bonds of up to £50,000 to young people and families to stay on or to move to islands currently threatened by depopulation

Transport

• 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 railway

• Bring ScotRail into public ownership from next year and decarbonise Scotland's rail services by 2035

• Extend free bus travel to everyone under 22

• Spend 10% of the transport capital budget on walking, cycling and wheeling

Crime

• Undertake a review of Scotland's prosecution system

• Ensure that every child victim/witness will have access to a safe space based on the European Barnahus model by 2025

• Appoint a victims' commissioner to provide an independent voice for victims and witnesses and review the provision of victim services

• 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

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