At-a-glance: Scottish Lib Dem manifesto

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto for the Holyrood elections. Here are the main points of the plan.

Education

• Open 250 new and refurbished schools and bring in 1,000 new teachers to cut class sizes.
• One hour of physical activity for every child every day.
• Free playgroup places for two-year-olds.
• Head teachers to have more powers to turn around poorly performing schools.
• Give head teachers powers requiring parents to attend meetings to tackle problem pupils.
• Primary one to primary three class size maximum of 25 pupils.
• Raise the number of school-business partnerships to 10,000 by 2010.
• Introduce a second language early in the primary curriculum.

• Open schools at evenings and weekends to offer new activities.
• A £22m Young Opportunity fund to support youth projects.
• Lower the voting age to 16.
• Give young people new rights through legislation and youth councils.
• Scrap the graduate endowment and increase the young student bursary by 10%.

Economy

• Lower business rates to 0.4p below the rest of the UK.
• Replace council tax with a "fairer" local income tax based in the ability to pay.
• Double value of the small business rate relief scheme by increasing the Scottish Executive contribution by £23m.
• Support for small independent shops.
• An innovation and investment agency with resources of £20m to deliver threefold increase in business research and development.
• Grow Scottish tourism by half by 2015.
• Cut red tape
• Expand modern apprenticeship programme to 50,000.
• Small town regeneration fund of £20m a year and the creation of three "wi-fi" towns.
• New Scottish food and drink promotion body.
• Land trusts to support more affordable housing.
• Increase public sector use of local Scottish produce.
• Support new entrants to farming.
• Free the arts sector from "excessive" government interference.
• £102m boost for grassroots sport.

Environment

• 100% of electricity from renewable sources.
• Cut energy demands by improving efficiency and invest in micro-generation and local power.
• Increase recycling rates to 70% by 2020.
• Cut carbon emissions with four year targets and annual reports to Parliament.

Health

• An extra 200 dentists so "everyone" has access to NHS dentists.
• 100 new and refurbished local health centres.
• Take on 2,000 extra nurses.
• New waiting time guarantee and faster diagnosis.
• Free fruit in primary schools and more cookery lessons.

Justice

• 1,000 extra community police officers.
• Tougher community sentences to make offenders work to repay their crimes and cut re-offending.
• Knife crime crackdown, with seven-year maximum custody and community combined sentences.
• Youth justice board and youth panels to cut youth crime.
• Pilot "dual sentencing", where offenders return to court after a period in custody to have a community part set.
• Licensing on the sale of airguns.
• Double funding for drug and alcohol treatment.

Transport

• High speed train between Glasgow and Edinburgh by 2020 and support for a high speed link to London.
• Action to improve single carriageway routes and improve safety so that no child is killed on Scotland's roads.
• Scrap Tay Bridge tolls and abolish charges for multi-occupancy vehicles across the Forth Road Bridge.
• Replacement crossing for the Forth.
• Improve resources to encourage cycling.
• A "carbon balance sheet" to show the impact of transport policies and projects.

Communities

• Double resources for Homestake to create 9,000 affordable homes each year.
• Build support for the voluntary sector.

Scottish government

• Support for more powers for the Scottish Parliament.
• Commission to investigate division of power between central and local government.