Scottish Conservative election manifesto at-a-glance

The Scottish Conservatives have unveiled their manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election on 7 May.

Below are some of their key policies.

• Cutting tax bills
• Raising school standards
• Delivering faster GP appointments
• Fixing roads
• Employing more police officers

• Raise point at which Scots pay income tax on their earnings
• Tax breaks for low, middle and high earners
• Allow pensioners to claim back the first £500 they pay in tax on their pension income
• Extended childcare for parents

• Invest in employability services targeted at those living in poverty
• Support nuclear energy plants in Scotland and back North Sea oil and gas drilling
• Impose a two-child cap on the Scottish Child Payment
• Speed up planning decisions and cut red tape
• Reduce business rates
• Cut the size of the Scottish civil service to 2016 levels
• Set up a Scottish Agency of Value and Efficiency tasked with saving at least £500m a year

• Guarantee of a GP appointment within 48 hours
• Reduce waiting lists and increase screenings of at-risk Scots
• Above-inflation funding increase for NHS and bring back recently retired doctors and nurses to deliver procedures
• Fast-track roll-out of NHS app
• Greater access to weight-loss drugs
• Improve access to menopause and endometriosis services

• Reverse policies that make it easier for asylum seekers to access housing
• Scrap free bus travel for asylum seekers

• Oppose a second independence referendum
• Stop the Scottish government from overturning planning decisions made by local people
• Ban "woke" roles within the public sector, such as diversity and inclusion officers

• Abolish Land and Buildings Transaction Tax - a levy paid when someone buys property or land over a certain value
• Establish "re-population zones" to support Scottish communities whose existence is under threat due to population decline
• Scrap any new costs imposed on households as a result of net-zero targets
• Oppose introduction of the Building Safety Levy - a tax on housebuilding
• Scrap rent controls

• End "soft-touch" sentencing and early release schemes for prisoners
• Increase stop-and-search powers for police
• Treat organised crime gangs like terrorists
• Domestic abuse register to monitor abusers
• Reduce court backlogs

• Maintain free tuition but consider "alternative systems" to ensure Scottish students are not at a disadvantage when applying to university
• Protect exam-based learning
• Increase college funding
• Abolish Education Scotland
• National ban on mobile phones in schools and free music lessons

• Abolish "unaffordable" net-zero target for 2045
• Multi-annual funding for fishing
• Ditch government policies that encourage a reduction in meat and dairy products
• Allow communities to say no to new pylons and make them the option of last resort for energy infrastructure projects
• No more government-backed rewilding projects

• Remove free bus passes for anti-social behaviour
• Extend the Borders Railway and the re-open old railway stations
• Create a new ferry procurement scheme and invest in the Ferguson Marine shipyard so it can attract private backing
• Fix potholes and ban low emission zones and speed up upgrades on trunk roads

• Protect Scotland's defence industry
• Double the Scottish Veteran Fund
• Increase punishments for war memorial vandals

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