The Greens' Scottish election manifesto at-a-glance

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

Below are some of the main policies featured in the document.

• Tax wealth and polluting industries to pay for public services
• Free bus travel for everyone in Scotland
• Expand funded childcare
• Reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045

• Introduce 1,140 hours of funded childcare to all two-year-olds in Scotland and 570 hours of funded childcare to every baby aged six months and up
• Back a comprehensive Universal Basic Income pilot
• Replace council tax with a residential property tax
• Establish regional green skills hubs linking colleges, employers and unions to guaranteed routes into low-carbon work
• Ensure all devolved social security payments increase annually, at least in-line with rising costs
• Increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40, with the aim of at least £55 by 2030, and offer supplements to the poorest families
• Introduce automatic payments, with benefits paid without applications, using information already held by public authorities to determine eligibility

• 40,000 new green energy jobs in the next five years with public funding directed to offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, green supply chains and renewables manufacturing
• Introduce frequent flyer levy, carbon emission land tax, stadium levy and a cruise ship and "point of entry" levy for tourism
• Add surcharges to businesses which cause harm to the environment and communities - including gambling firms, large online retailers and absentee landlords
• Explore further levies on arms companies, fireworks sellers, short-term lets, fee-paying private schools and fossil fuel terminals, plants and pipelines
• Develop proposals for a Scottish wealth tax
• Create a new business rates band on properties valued at more than £1m, such as the Barclays and JP Morgan facilities in Glasgow
• Four-day working week pilots for the public sector
• Close the loopholes which allow the monarchy, foreign militaries and property speculators to pay nothing in land and buildings transaction tax

• End all charges for dental treatment and gradually bring dental practices fully into NHS
• Increase GPs so there is one for every 1,000 patients and, once those GPs are in place, offer 15-minute appointments
• Nurse-to-patient ratios to prevent NHS staff from being overburdened
• £15 per hour minimum wage for social care workers
• A long-term, sustainable funding model for hospice care
• Call on the UK government to remove its block on gender recognition legislation and update it with "international best practice"
• Set up safe drug consumption facilities across Scotland, with Edinburgh and Dundee the priorities
• Scrap charges for non-residential care

• Call on the UK government to fully devolve powers over immigration
• Fund councils and registered social landlords to become the preferred suppliers of housing for people seeking asylum, and end the routine use of hotels and barracks
• Push the UK government to provide Automatic Leave to Remain for all medical students studying in Scottish universities, to tackle the recruitment crisis in the NHS
• Introduce Scotland-wide anti-racist education across schools, policing, and public institutions, and deliver campaigns highlighting New Scots' contributions to the economy, culture and civic life

• Scotland must be allowed to choose its constitutional future
• Use citizens' assemblies in public decision making
• Pilot a community wealth fund to support locally-owned green enterprise, including wealth generated from renewables

• Require that all new homes meet net-zero standards, be connected to zero-carbon public transport, not be built in flood risk areas, and provide green spaces for residents and the local community
• Deliver fully funded repairs or rehousing for those affected by RAAC
• Remove licences from poor-performing property factors
• Remove exemption for mid-market and build-to-rent properties from rent controls
• Increase the notice period for eviction from a tenancy to four months, and ban evictions based on the landlord selling or moving themselves or their family into the property for the first 12 months of a tenancy
• Restore the ban on most evictions between November and March

• Expand the presumption against short prison sentences, for non-violent offenders in particular
• Raise funding for rehabilitative alternatives to custody
• Introduce a legal presumption against remand
• Transfer mental health crisis responses from Police Scotland to community crisis services

• Raise the school starting age to seven and introduce a play-based kindergarten stage for three-to-six-year-olds
• Free school meals for all primary pupils, and secondary pupils who receive the Scottish Child Payment, with the long-term goals of universal provision
• End the routine use of homework in primary schools and reduce the use of exams in secondary schools
• Personal and social education including consent-based sex education, LGBT+ inclusivity, mental health, and personal finances, co-designed by young people
• Free breakfast clubs in every primary and ASN school
• A legal cap on the cost of school uniforms

• £600m investment programme in onshore and offshore wind, tidal and solar
• Pay for people to install heat pumps, solar panels with linked battery storage and other green heating technologies on their homes
• Ambitious nature recovery targets
• Reforest Scotland's hills and glens
• Cancel the Scottish government's exclusive agreement with Flamingo Land to develop a site at Loch Lomond
• Ecocide law criminalising severe environmental harm
• Pause new salmon farms or the expansion of existing sites until the industry demonstrably improves fish welfare

• Free bus travel for everyone in Scotland. Under-30s would get free fares immediately, with a £2 cap imposed for others during a transition period
• Bring the bus network under local control, with members of the public to be given the chance to invest in bus bonds
• Integrated ticketing system – ScotCard – setting zonal pricing with daily caps for all public transport journeys
• A national Scottish Rail Card, providing discounts for everyone who is ineligible for the existing railcard schemes
• Scrap first-class ScotRail tickets
• Expand the rail network, including potential new stations in Newburgh, Tomatin, Halbeath and Hawick
• Ensure every child leaving primary school has had the opportunity to learn to cycle and swim

• Ban governments involved in and facilitating war crimes and genocide from using Scottish government-owned infrastructure (for example, US military planes that have passed through Prestwick Airport have been involved in military action in the Middle East)
• End all Scottish government support for the arms industry, including enterprise grants, free business advice, and global marketing deals
• Ban companies identified as complicit in Israel's war against the Palestinians from receiving government support, including grants and public funding
• Ensure Scotland works towards a world free of nuclear weapons