The SNP's Scottish election manifesto at-a-glance

The Scottish National Party has unveiled its manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election on 7 May.

Below are some of the main policies featured in the 72-page document.

• Bring down the cost of living
• Eradicate child poverty
• Improve public services and the NHS
• Scottish independence

• Price cap on essential supermarket items - such as bread, milk and eggs
• Extend funded childcare support to every child aged from nine months to the end of primary school, all year round.
• £2 cap on single bus fare nationwide
• Ensure a majority of Scots pay less income tax than they would elsewhere in the UK, with no increases to bands or rates
• Increase Scottish Child Payment to £40 for those most in need
• Pilot a minimum income for artists

• A major projects office to speed up the delivery of "nationally significant" initiatives
• A high-growth unit to accelerate the growth of high-potential businesses
• Reform the planning system
• "Substantially" reduce the number of public bodies in Scotland
• 25% increase in our international development funding
• Simplify the income tax system
• Unlock £20bn of investible pension fund assets
• Create a National Council for Economic Growth
• Launch a First Minister's Start-up Challenge - encouraging young people from disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds to start businesses

• Cut waiting lists and spend £200m a year on increasing the number of operations
• Pass on any increases in health spending by the Treasury to the NHS
• Expand a network of walk-in GP practices to end the "8am rush" for appointments
• At least £10bn in capital spending, to fund new buildings and equipment
• "One stop shops" in villages, pharmacies, sports clubs and workplaces across for lung and heart health "MOTs".
• Launch an NHS app, a national booking system and digital prescribing
• Expand 24/7 mental health support
• Roll out naloxone kits to bars and clubs to help prevent drugs deaths
• National review of maternity services

• Urge the UK government to deliver a Scottish visa scheme
• Stand in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers

• Council tax reform to be a "high priority"

• Build more homes and create a new housing agency
• Help for first-time buyers with up to £10,000 through an equity loan towards a deposit
• The right of first refusal for private renters to buy the property they live in if it goes on sale
• £75m housing fund for rural and island communities
• Mansion tax on properties valued at over £1m
• £50m Homelessness Prevention Fund

• Reduce the hours police officers need to spend in courts and hospitals
• Ban conversion practices
• £10m over the next three years to tackle retail crime
• Increase the use of Football Banning Orders to stamp out dangerous and abusive behaviour at matches
• Criminalise the purchase of sex
• Make permanent a Fund to Leave scheme for victims of domestic abuse
• Remove the so-called "crime of passion" defence of provocation in murder trials
• Invest in community sentencing as an alternative to prison, as well as two new jails

• "Welcome to school" bags for all primary one pupils, including books, stationery and water bottles
• 150,000 apprenticeships
• Teacher job guarantee for a minimum of three years for newly qualified graduates
• Mobile phone ban in schools
• Expand free school meals to all primary pupils
• Bright Start Breakfast clubs across all primary and special schools from August 2027

• Reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045
• £500m Just Transition Fund to support workers and businesses
• Support the creation of 500 extra jobs in the Grangemouth industrial cluster
• £9m support for workers at Mossmorran
• Create a ScotWind Wealth Fund to provide energy and financial security for future generations
• Accelerate investment in offshore wind, solar, pumped storage and emerging technologies
• Calls for the UK government to consider climate compatibility and energy security on North Sea oil and gas projects
• Formally request the transfer of energy powers from Westminster to Holyrood

• A Private Jet Tax and explore the possibility of taxing "ghost" flights from private jets
• Invest in the A9, A96 and a £350m "Better Surfaces" fund to fix potholes

• Oppose nuclear weapons and back the removal of Trident from Scotland
• Stand with Ukraine and support a two-state solution in the Middle East with an independent, sovereign Palestinian state