Progress on headline commitments can be seen below.
1. Council tax freeze
2. Small Business Bonus
3. Abolish
tolls on the Forth and Tay Road Bridges
4. Reverse decision to downgrade A&E at Monklands
and Ayr hospitals
5. Delivered funding for 1,000 more police and focused resources on community
policing
6. Published a White Paper and draft Bill on Scottish independence
7. Launch the Saltire Prize
8. Give asylum children the same access rights (to education)
as other children in Scotland
9. Double the international development budget
10. Delivered funding to phase out prescription charges
11. Convened a Council of Economic
Advisers and National Economic Forum
12. Abolished the Graduate Endowment Fee
13. Make the decision on a replacement for the Forth Bridge
14. Introduced HPV vaccination
for all girls aged between 12 and 14
15. Increase the payments for free personal and nursing
care
16. Introduced a Climate Change Bill with 3% annual targets and minimum of 80% reduction
by 2050
17. Delivered annual efficiency savings equivalent to 1.5% of the Scottish budget
18. No new nuclear power stations or dumps
19. Created a £10 million national
life sciences institute in Dundee
20. Cut number of Departments and review of our agency structure
21. Road Equivalent Tariff pilot introduced in Western Isles
22.
Accelerated proposals for electrification of the rail network
23. Steps to reduce red-tape and
widen access to public procurement contracts for small businesses (Public Procurement Portal)
24.
Support Scotland’s bid for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
25. Issued guidance to health boards
to reduce excessive charges for car parking
26. Deliver 50% increase in provision of free nursery
education to 3 & 4 year olds
27. Introduced proposals on science and language baccalaureates
28. Implementing current school building programme
29. Introduced
a not-for-profit Scottish Futures Trust
30. Introduced a legislative presumption against the
closure of rural schools – proposals launched 1 May 2008, on SG website
31. Reviewed modern
apprenticeships to make sure that skills being taught match skills gaps and that the system is flexible enough to encourage
maximum participation. Introduce sectoral based initiatives and maximise the number of small businesses taking part
32. Created a £2 million 'Edinburgh Festival Expo Fund' to promote Scottish work at the Festivals
33. Treble funding for community and micro-generation
34. Conservation credits –
to involve fishing community more closely in conservation policy
35. Implementing Curriculum
for Excellence – long term strategy
36. Set up a Zero waste fund and are tackling commercial
and industrial waste as part of our plans to work towards a zero waste Scotland
37. National
Drugs Commission established to develop a long term drugs strategy
38. Ensuring business rates
poundage doesn’t rise above England
39. Promoting energy crops in Scotland’s agriculture
and forestry sector
40. Reviewed flood legislation - ensuring adequate funding for flood prevention
– and passed Flooding Act
41. Seeking ways to reduce the burden on the farming community.
Pilot schemes which ensure agencies work in partnership, making single visits to farms
42. Developed
North Sea super-grid project
43. Committed to the long-term future of Peterhead Prison
44. Established Scotland Performs based on the Virginia model of governmental performance management
45. Announced promised Public Inquiries into infection of Hep C through NHS treatment and the Shirley McKie case
46. Cancelled Edinburgh Airport Rail Link in favour of more cost effective option
47. Reviewed Right to Buy legislation. Legislating to make it more responsive to local needs 48. Introduced Criminal
Justice and Licensing Bill – which will enable a number of the legislative changes which will deliver on manifesto commitments
49. Introduced Marine Bill in April 2009 and achieved Executive devolution, giving Scotland a
greater say over offshore zone to 200 nm
50. Introduced a £10 million (over 6 years) new
entrant support scheme for farmers
51. Establishing a Scottish Investment Fund with income from
the fund allocated to support business start ups, research and social enterprises
52. Refocused
the Enterprise networks to provide a more streamlined service for the Scottish business community and support key industries
such as tourism
53. Met 2-month waiting target for cancer patients to be diagnosed and treated
54. Introduce direct elections to Health Boards
55. Enforcing more
strictly the legislation prohibiting sales of tobacco to people under age
56. Maintained a moratorium
on GM planting in Scotland – no cultivation of GM crops in Scotland (whether commercial or research)
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