Reform UK's Scottish election manifesto at-a-glance

Reform UK has unveiled its manifesto for the Scottish Parliament election on 7 May.

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

• Cut income tax
• Reform the NHS
• Reduce welfare spending
• Shut down quangos - public bodies operating at arms-length from the government, such as health boards
• Make Scotland the most successful part of the UK

• Align Scotland's income tax system with the UK's - meaning it would be reduced from six bands to three
• Cut rates by up to 3p below levels south of the border
• Immediately cancel planned increase in council tax

• Form a department of government efficiency to "cut waste and duplication"
• Re-allocate £1bn currently spent on net zero projects and £6.5bn spent on 132 quangos to fund tax cuts
• Phase out the land and buildings transaction tax - Scotland's equivalent of stamp duty, paid when buying property or land over a certain value - and non-domestic rates - known as business rates.
• Replace them with an annual property tax, the revenues of which are to be handed directly to local authorities
• Review statutory obligations placed on councils by Scottish government
• Review the number of civil servants and limit opportunities to work from home
• Cut social security spending and impose "rigorous face-to-face assessments of claimants"

• NHS to remain free at the point of need and fully funded by general taxation
• Establish a Scottish Healthcare Reform Commission
• Consider "creative" solutions to tackled delayed discharge from hospitals, social care reform, improved prevention strategies, expanded community healthcare and the adoption of the NHS England app in Scotland

• Immigrants who adopt Scottish "values" - which the manifesto describes as being "generous, kind, amusing, hard-working, law-abiding and fair-minded" - are to be welcomed
• Restoring a housing rule that meant local authorities could refer homeless applicants to other council areas if they were deemed not to have a connection to the area
• Scrap Glasgow's status as Scotland's main dispersal city for successful asylum seekers

• Reduce number of seats at Holyrood from 73 to 57
• Review devolved powers every 10 years
• Impose compulsory physical attendance and voting at Scottish Parliament
• Enact a recall bill allowing constituents to effectively sack their representatives
• End lengthy public inquiries "which transfer taxpayers' money to lawyers"

• Introduce a rent-to-buy model for young people, first-time buyers and working families
• Build 15,000 new homes per year over the next five years
• Allow local authorities to build affordable housing on town centre brownfield sites for local working families
• Build a sustained supply of social housing, owned by local authorities
• Repeal regulations for all new tenancies while keeping terms of existing tenancies unchanged

• Impose harsher jail sentences for repeat offenders, increase prison capacity and end early release programmes designed to cut the inmate population
• Tackle the "shoplifting epidemic"
• Scrap hate crime legislation introduced in 2024
• Immediately look to increase police pay
• Abolish Scottish Sentencing Council in favour of direct oversight of sentencing by ministers

• Abolish Education Scotland and return responsibility for education to the Scottish government
• Reform Curriculum for Excellence
• Ban mobile phones in schools
• Use exclusion as an "essential tool" to maintain discipline in the classroom
• Allow secondary schools to apply for the self-governance model used by Jordanhill College in Glasgow
• Review university funding to "ensure degrees are meaningful, value-for-money and grounded in genuine academic merit"

• Scrap all net-zero subsidies - which can come in the form of grants and interest-free loans - to homeowners, businesses and communities for projects such as energy efficiency and decarbonisation
• Scrap targets to cut fossil fuel emissions and arms-length public bodies involved in net-zero policy
• "Rehabilitate" the North Sea oil and gas industry to make it Scotland's "primary energy system", as well as ending government opposition to new nuclear power stations in Scotland
• The manifesto claims "using our own natural resources again will reduce household bills immediately"
• Simplify the planning system to fast-track permissions for hydro, geothermal, open-cast coal mining and electrical network infrastructure on brownfield or industrial sites

• Fix potholes and abolish low-emission zones
• Create a 10-year rolling ferry renewal programme and harbour upgrades
• Ease congestion and improve efficiency of roadworks by adopting lane rental schemes to charge utility companies and contractors for road space during busy times
• Support the Clyde Metro and Glasgow Airport link

There were no defence policies outlined in the manifesto for the 2026 Scottish Parliament election