The Tories' election pledges comprise:

• Halve the number of Scottish Executive ministers from 20 to 10

• Reduce the number of MSPs from 129 to 108 and streamline the committee system

• Cut the costs of government back to 1997 levels saving over �100m

• Make the executive more accountable to parliament

• Strengthen relationships between the constituent parts of the United Kingdom

• Support zero tolerance policing

• Provide a more visible crime fighting presence on our streets

• Take persistent young offenders off our streets

• Ensure criminals serve the sentence given by the court

• Fast track prosecution and stiffer sentences for drug dealers

• Give health professionals more say in the running of the service

• Devolve power to hospitals and GPs

• Ensure patients have real choice

• Create a genuine partnership between the NHS and the independent sector

• Unify health and community care within the NHS

• Empower head teachers to exclude violent or disruptive pupils

• Encourage a greater choice of specialist schools

• Give schools greater freedom to set their own priorities

• Abolish the graduate tax

• Guarantee access to higher education solely on merit

• Cut business rates for all businesses to the level in England

• Reduce unnecessary red tape

• A more focused department of enterprise

• Spend an extra �100m a year on roads and public transport

• Encourage young entrepreneurs

• Invest more in local roads and I.T.

• Provide a level playing field for our farmers, fishermen and foresters

• Give control of fisheries to local fishermen

• Sustain popular rural schools

• Ensure access to vital local health services

• Stronger, more accountable local councils

• Reduce ring-fencing of council grants

• Facilitate a real terms freeze in council tax over the next three years

• Local solutions to environmental problems

• Transfer the remaining council houses to community ownership