Labour's election pledges say the party will:

• Support the start-up and growth of Scottish businesses, especially manufacturers with the potential for expansion

• Work with Scottish businesses to improve investment in research and development and enhance productivity

• Invest in the skills of Scotland's people and the transport and communications infrastructure of the country

• Make sure that economic growth and its benefits are shared by all of Scotland's communities

• Promote Scotland as a good place to live and work, with a high quality of life and attractive to fresh talent from around the world

• Increase the Apprenticeship programme to 30,000

• Introduce national bus and rail concessionary travel for young people

• Provide additional financial support and services for students to make sure no-one is left behind

• Legislate to streamline funding in higher and further education

• Will not introduce tuition fees in Scotland's universities

• Introduce Business Learning Accounts and re-introduce Individual Learning Accounts

• Aim to close the gap in unemployment rates between the worst 10% of areas and the Scottish average by 2006

• Set up a Lifelong Learning Forum to develop lifelong learning

• Deliver rail links to Glasgow and Edinburgh Airports by 2010 and provide better links for business visitors and tourists coming to Scotland

• Open a new east to west route by rebuilding the Airdrie to Bathgate railway

• Re-open the Alloa to Stirling service and construct the Larkhall to Milngavie line

• Implement a tram network and other public transport improvements in Edinburgh

• Redevelop Waverley Station in Edinburgh

• Agree the new Scottish Rail franchise and improve on the current level of service

• Invest in the long-term improvement of Scotland's transport and communications infrastructure

• Publish a White Paper in the first term of the parliament to reform strategic transport delivery and establish a single strategic transport authority, with strong regional delivery partnerships

• Promote quality contracts for bus services and maintain lifeline air and ferry services

• Complete priority transport projects on the strategic road network, airport links and rail transport improvements and take action to reduce the volume of freight on roads

• Conduct a second strategic roads review early in the next parliament

• Invest �3bn over the next 10 years on improving Scotland's transport links

• Improve business grant and support schemes, removing duplication and improving quality

• Introduce a new Business Start-Up Fund

• Support the productive link between research and product development through the Intermediary Technology Institutes

• Freeze business rates for 2003/4 and limit increases to no more than inflation for the following two years

• Maintain our new small business rate relief break and introduce a national tourism registration scheme

• Support the development of environmentally sustainable and competitive farming, fishing and forestry across Scotland

• Support the principles of reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in order to help farmers generate more income

• Support the development and marketing of the commercial salmon market and the emerging markets of shellfish and new marine fin-fish

• Set in place an urgent review of the management of all fisheries within the 12-mile coastal zone

• Provide practical support to innovation and enterprise in our rural communities

• Increase health spending by 30% and take investment in education to more than �4bn

• Introduce a national citizens' entitlement card

• Introduce the integrated community school model to all schools by 2007

• Reform the curriculum to increase choice

• Tackle violence, bullying and disruption in schools

• Abolish NHS trusts and introduce hearing tests for all new babies

• Recruit and train 11,000 nurses and midwives

• Reform children's services and introduce a Children's Charter to protect the most vulnerable

• Expand the drugs enforcement agency and increase the number of police on duty

• Extend anti-social behaviour orders to under 16s

• Provide recycling for every community in Scotland by 2006

• The income tax varying power will not be used

• Design a fairer council tax banding system.