CONSTITUTION
• Scottish Labour will “never support independence”; constitutional convention to consider “option of a more federalised” UK
TAX
• Different from UK Labour. Basic rate of 21p above £11,500; higher rate at 41p above £42,385; additional rate of 50p above £150,000. Tapered loss of personal allowance
PUBLIC SERVICES
• Additional £3bn from Barnett Formula consequentials by 2021
ECONOMY
• Living wage of £10 helping 467,000 Scots workers below living wage; ending zero hours contracts for 57,000 Scots workers; Scottish Investment Bank with £20bn for Scottish jobs
EDUCATION
• Breakfast club in every primary; every child leaving primary school able to read to a high standard within 10 years; more vocational choices at secondary; more support for colleges; more apprenticeships; 30 years to repay student loans
HEALTH
• End 1 per cent pay cap on NHS staff; NHS workforce commission; end scandal of 15 minute social care visits; 10-year plan to give mental health same priority as physical health
WELFARE
• Increase child benefit by £5 per week to lift 30,000 children out of poverty by 2021
TRANSPORT
• Bring private rail companies back into public ownership as franchises expire: a People’s ScotRail, for people, not for profit; Caledonian Sleeper franchise back in public ownership
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