The Lib Dems' Scottish election manifesto at-a-glance

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

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

• Make it easier to get treatment at GP surgeries
• Tackle delayed discharge from hospital
• Complete major infrastructure projects
• Improve the education system

• Launch a Job Transition Loan for people looking to retrain or change career
• Insulate cold homes and use renewable energy to drive down household bills
• Help parents return to work
• Close the gender pay gap

• Improve Scotland's finances to allow future tax cuts
• Reform council tax, the planning system and business rates
• Link pay and bonuses at the top of the public sector to success
• Exempting the last bank in town from business rates

• Improve access to GPs, bring down waiting lists and improve early diagnosis
• Embed 900 extra NHS staff, such as nurses, physios and mental health professionals, in GP practices to make it easier for patients to see specialist staff
• Allow patients to use the NHS App to book, move and cancel appointments, ending the "8am rush" for GP appointments
• Invest £400m in care over the next three years to tackle delayed discharge
• Increase support for unpaid carers by £400 a year
• Ending "dental deserts" by giving dentists a fair deal and cutting red tape
• Establish "world-class" mental health services in Scotland, including walk-in services

• Allow asylum seekers to work if they have been waiting for a decision for more than three months
• Helping people to learn English and explore pathways for recognition of qualifications for those whose asylum claims are successful

• Change the voting system for the Scottish Parliament to Single Transferable Vote
• Treat local authorities as an equal partner

• A £100m home insulation programme and use Scottish renewable energy to drive down household bills
• Build an average of 25,000 homes per year
• Deliver 10,000 homes dedicated for key workers
• Help to Renovate loan scheme to bring neglected properties back into use

• Strengthen the Retail Crime Taskforce to make high streets safer
• Reduce re-offending through the use of robust community sentences and by giving prisoners better education
• Double the fixed penalty for littering
• Bringing the age of criminal responsibility in line with United Nations recommendations

• Pilots trialling play-based learning for children until the age of seven
• Expand access to extra curricular activities such as music, sport, drama, debating and entrepreneurship, starting by piloting free entitlement for disadvantaged children
• Entitlement to youth work for 11-25 year olds.

• Accelerate the rollout of smart climate-friendly heating systems, including heat pumps and district heating
• Invest in low-carbon heat networks, including the potential for connecting whole towns
• Make it easier for people in shared buildings to agree to upgrades
• Explore the potential for small modular reactors in Scotland
• Track and report every sewage dump in waterways, and replace outdated standards with modern enforceable regulation
• Expand woodlands using at least 50% native species

• Dualling the A9 and building tunnels for Shetland
• £12m compensation for islanders and coastal communities affected by ferry disruption
• A tap-and-go transport system, with a Transport for London-style model for communities
• A commuter-friendly guarantee for ScotRail customers, increasing late night services and opening up new stations

• Making defence a pillar of the country's industrial strategy
• Recognise veterans as a population at heightened risk during the development of public health policies