What matters to you?

What matters to you?

We want to hear about your priorities for Scotland. Tell us the issues you feel the Scottish Parliament's committees should focus on between 2021 and 2026. Watch the video for more information and click '?' for details of our discussion rules and privacy notice.

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Energy strategy

Acknowledge the need for systemic change across the board

Child welfare hearing reform

Abolish the Council Tax

Concerns about the assessment led approach to education

More Trainee positions and CV's over Application Packs

Fair pay for military personnel who play musical instruments

Adopt Central European Time as part of Independence

National Fund for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

Add Consent to standard sex education

Composting and Carbon Sequestering

Bring back the walrus

Update online safety education

I think mental health for folk with learning disabilities

Providing ample facilities for tourists.

Protect and improve urban green space

Encouraging Sustainable travel

expansion of the Community Payback system

Prioritise Scotland’s educational interests with the EU

Co-operate with EU to tackle the climate emergency

Make Social Work a more accessible profession

Politial Engagement

Wonen’s rights

self esteem and emotional resilience from day one

Fairer planning judgements for 'Major Applications'

BBC and daytime scheduling

Monarchy Committee instead of a King or Queen

Education

Human Rights Law enshrined in Home Contents policies

Welfare Benefits - paid benefits for volunteering

Drugs User Services

Social Housing

Public Transport

Ban the sale of personal data

FIX FIFE ROADS ! ITS ALL ABOUT BUDGET IN FIFE

social care

Safer Junctions

Reduce polution

Equal access for same sex couples to NHS fertility treatment

Review the Statutory Guidance on Gaelic Education

Provide Vouchers to individuals needing mental health care

Business

External paint grant for people living in grey harled houses

Paint Speed Limit On Road

investigate the feasibility of opening old railway lines

Harness Innovation and new ways of working post Covid

Economic powers for recovery

Immigration Health Surcharge or National Insurance

‘Ready to Learn’ supports for all BGE pupils

Stay closely aligned to EU human rights laws

Young people's lives post-Covid

develop a cross portfolio unpaid Carer Covid recovery plan

Improved education for people who have a learning disability

Properly integrated public transport systems

NHS Scot Religious education

Alternative Education

Better access to specialised psychology uni masters

Support housing rights of EU citizens living in Scotland

Delivery plans to tackle the climate crisis

Create the legal right to work 100% from home

The planet

public sector funding

No Bus service for Holyrood Rd

Overtourism/realistic benefits of tourism

Employee Ownership

Stop investing in nuclear weapons

Proscribe the Orange Order as a hate group.

Get rid of Trident

my priority is getting the care home situation changed

Banning conversion therapy

Prioritise Scotland’s EU interests - jobs and employment

Universal Basic Income

Sexual violence against girls in schools

Devolve broadcasting, telecommunications & broadband

How to replace the Common Agricultural Policy?

Lease our seabed for energy production by MWh generated

Allow tenants to keep pets

Repurposing, reusing and recycling

land reform

Male violence against women

Rewild Scotland

Nature-based jobs

Financial statement for independence

Biosphere sustainability

Prepare to establish a Scottish currency

Spaces for people

We need to make our local main streets busy again

Allow families to decide how to use childcare allowance

Revitalise Scotland’s high streets

social finance

Scrap 'Nordic Model' of Criminalisation of Sex Work

anti houselessness

Address fly tipping and untidy rubbish strewn streets.

Preserve historic built heritage

Women's sex based rights

A review of EMA

Second independence referendum

Get the ferries built

Remove nuclear weapons and create international cyber court

escalating domestic abuse

Provide students with funding through the summer

Gaelic & Scots language learning for professionals

Scotland needs nature recovery targets

psychology should drive school timetabling

A national nature network

Prevent bi and tri level classes at upper secondary

Expand Scotland’s Newborn Screening Programme

Prioritise habitats and wildlife corridors over development

Climate Education to be implemented into the curriculum

Coeliac Disease & other gluten related disorders

Enforce draconian penalties for littering & fly tipping

Childcare and early years support

Abandoned Cars - make it a criminal offence

Scottish Heritage and Culture

Increase mental health support in schools

Scrap the BBC fee

Make sight loss a public health priority

Four day working week

Reduce packaging for food and goods

protection of women from domestic abuse

1 salary household shouldn't mean £0 for unemployed/students

Ban Cosmetic and Non-Vital Surgeries on Intersex Infants

Sex as a protected characteristic

Specialised mental health support for people of colour

Not privatising NHS

Introduce Tough Drink Spiking Laws

More free, accessible, and inclusive public toilets

Increase funding for diversity education and support

Housing for disabled people

Hold people accountable for online hate

teaching about the needs of disabled kids

Free transport for 16 to 20 year olds

Allocate more land for travelers to pitch on

Change the legal definition of rape to include women rapists

i want a safe happy environment for children to grow up

Economic Impact of HEIs & their role in Covid-19 Recovery

Protecting and restoring nature

Genetic Therapy payment model

Sort out domestic recycling and waste management

Be consulted on ALL changes

keep the rent cap on private homes

Ensure Funding for Interrupted Learners Services

Protect Fragile Communities

Establish a National Bank

Increase free public toilet provision

Create a publically owned internet service

care for the elderly

Psychology workforce

Euthenasia

Ban Greyhound racing

Better access to walking for everyone

Scotland needs a radical new plan for mental health

Get us all on board with climate emergency policies

Protection of women's sex-based rights

Access to health care for Trans people

Fair and non-judgemental access and assessments for care

Prioritise Scotland’s cultural interests with the EU

Access to housing

Ensure fair work opportunities for visually impaired people

Reform planning laws to allow more ultra-green housing

More cooperation between councils in the recycling

Movement for Health

Better access to health services like doctors and dentists

Crack down on Transphobia

Right to affordable food

Occupational therapy for children and young people

Reviewing access and affordability to training and education

Review and Change the Scottish Legal system

Protection of vulnerable groups

Encourage biodiversity on council grounds

Animal Rights

Let children play

looking after our young people

Accurately record sex of people charged/convicted of ra

Safe and free social spaces

The Role of Taxes in Scotland

Reform the GRA to allow for self-identification

Transgender and other Queer inclusivity

Ensure the right to privacy both digitally, physically

Limiting population growth

Stop public funding of lobby groups

Learning Disability, Autism & Neurodiversity Commissioner

Let's have Services, not Forms

Affirmative Consent Law

investment bank

Net Zero Apparel

Upgrade transport links and roads to island communities

Employment options for people who have learning disabilities

Rent Caps and Tenant's Rights

National Care Service

Charge England/US eye-watering amounts of rent for Faslane

Intergenerational connections are essential for rebuilding

Prevention and recovery from industrial dereliction

Non Digital Vaccine Passports

Taic a bharrachd dhan Ghàidhlig ann an coimhearsnachdan ùra

Older People's Sports Clubs

promote worker ownership (Co-operatives)

Continued support for arts, culture and the Gaelic language

Protect cash in the economy by guaranteeing access and use

Lifeline Ferry priority for islanders

car tax and fuel duty.

Human rights for ALL, no exceptions

Buses for Dumbiedykes

Improved GP services and catching up on NHS backlog

Corporate and Social Responsibility

Not Every Disability is Visible

assisted dying

Pass the Gender Recognition Act

improve and increase the fibre optic digital connectivity

Prison reform and rehabilitation

Mandate use of Small Business for modest Public Contracts

Sign language classes in public schools

Prosecute excessive vehicle noise (including motorcycles)

SCRAP THE BOOKING FOR THE DUMP

When will my kids get vaccinated?

A law on overtime in the workplace

Removal of charging for social care

What alternative methods of C-19 vaccination can be offered?

Battling substance abuse

Introduce & promote working class history month

Independant Advocacy

Require new build developers to include local amenities

Inclusive health policy

womens sex based rights being protected

How Anti-Obesity Campaigns Impact Eating Disorder Sufferers

Public transport in public hands

Help for private lets

Safer Roundabouts

Consumer Safeguards for Unsafe Products

help increase the diagnosis rate of autism in girls

More support for people wishing to die at home

An end to the inequitable ownership of land in Scotland

anti-sexism

Prevent Fraud, Scam Calls, Texts, Emails

Set up a wholly owned Scottish Lottery and keep the enormous

Education for peace

Scot Gov work with sex workers

That all Schools should have counsellors available daily.

National Sport Activity Strategy for all

keep prisons single sex

Financial exploitation of older vulnerable people

Ban winter evictions

Equal treatment for men and women in the workplace

Investigate the use of DNACPR

Zero Hour Contracts

Menopause in the workplace

Neurodivergent awareness

Mental health in prisons

The humane treatment of animals

Better Cycling Infrastructure

Sustainable development, land ownership and population regen

tourism

Better chances for blind and partially sighted young people

Establish a publicly owned National Energy Company

make councils and their workers accountable

Houselessness

Expanding rail network into Southern Clydesdale

Get the population engaged in combatting climate change now.

Climate Change

Right to Rehab

Follow the science on man-made structures in the ocean

Give vouchers to unemployed instead of cash

History and King John Bailliol and the Interregnum

Raise Pupil Equity Fund For Pupils From 3-18

Introduce Online/Digital Voting

Adaptations for children

Closest possible alignment with EU to aid post Covid recover

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

dropped kerbs

Improve direct transport links between Scotland and Europe

Protect NHS Scotland and limit any negative impact of Brexit

Good governance

accessible environment for wheelchair users

Education by level, not age

improve the ferry services so they are robust and secure

Older People's Commissioner

Fix the ferries.

Public Sector Procurement

extend free childcare and increase nursery stage to 6 yrs

Affordable and availability of housing - Second Homes

Defamation by Dismissal and Corporate Mismanagement

industrial & Business Development

Paranoid Schizophrenia - need for non-clinical experts

Ending North Sea Drilling

Mental Health Law integrated with Employment Law

Holiday brochures

Restore 3 Mile Inshore Commercial Fishing Restrictions

SDS RATE

Infected Blood Inquiry Recommentations

Counterfeit Goods and Consumer Protection

Psychological therapy for Long Covid rehab

proper funding and resources for additional support needs in

Establish a Rare Condition Coordination Service for Scotland

Roads, ferries, other means of transport and infrastructure

Self - driving cars

Expand Free Public Transport to Rail

Infrastructure for electric vehicles

Allow disabled people on night buses

Self sufficiency in food production

Monoculture tree plantations - misleading data

Full legal recognistion of Non Binary Genders

Improvements to Trans health care and Gender Recognition Act

Rent controls

Consider Introducing a Gaelic 'Language Nest' Project

Funding for mental health services

Full Partnership in managing the UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Climate change

Land Reform

Preventative policy

Housing First

Mental health support when waiting lists are long

Ban fireworks for private use

Restore seagrass meadows

Parity between health and social care

Heating our homes in the future

Free broadband for all

Sustainable Tourism, Wild Camping and Access Rights

There should be a multidisciplinary workforce supporting GPs

Abandon the MSP list system

Life after covid 19

Poverty

Easy Accessibility to Mental Health Services

decriminalise cannabis

Make working from home a legal right for disabled people

Future Homes

Broadcaster to replace BBC institutional Unionist bias

Strengthened tax decision-making

Give Community Council's 1% of their Council's budget

Employment ( graduate programme for 2020 graduates)

changing BSL laws and ending breed discrimination

Local community representation in the Highland Council

Make high speed dual carriageways cycle free

Air Miles Levy on the minority who fly frequently

Local Governance & Taxation

Classify sitka plantation forestry as agriculture

Upgrade the Perth to Inverness Rail Line

Legislate against delivery surcharges and black holes

Climate resilience

Scotland endorses a mindful approach to all aspects of life

Public benches/seating

Increase jobs/services in nhs mental health

Review local government in the Highlands

Better rail outside of the central belt.

The resumption of outreach services for those with ASN

Better Safer Cycling

Explore the future of Scotland's towns & cities post COVID

Investigate the Expansion of Early Learning and Childcare

Unpaid carers

Creative subjects like art and music being marginalised

Fast broadband throughout Scotland

Police Scotland Staff Pay Claim 2021

Equal Rights for children and non resident parents

Fighting Climate Change

Address, label, and hold Hate groups accountable

Protect Scotland’s Community Facilities

LGBTQ+ rights, with an emphasis on trans rights.

Providing free concessionary bus travel to under 25’s

The Government must increase support for the Gaelic Language

nuclear weapons

A real living wage

Case for independence

Reform Immigration Policies

More must be done to help homelessness in rural communities

Disinvest fossil fuels

Scrap Anti-Homeless Architecture

Affordable Public Transport

Stop killing our wildlife

Women's rights and not going ahead with GRA reforms

poverty and problem debt

universal basic income

HELP WITH AUSTIC CHILDREN

child tax credits

Pensioner Poverty

protecting female rights as a sex

Provide Legal Help To Assist 380k 50's Pensionless Women

Establish national Mental Health Service Scotland

more accessibility for mental health support services

Remove sex and gender markers from all official ID

Keep the clocks on British Summer Time all year round

Homelessness across Scotland

No self ID

Look into the impact of COVID-19 on schools and universities

Closing the attainment gap

making sure life is fair for all

keep school toilets single sex

In Safe Hands

Stop promoting gender identity over sex based rights

Disolve cadavers

Human Rights and Migration

Education needs to be about being fit for the future

Full disclosure on all covid funds spending. ALL OF IT.

NHS Scot Racial Education

Not being able to access GP services.

Creationof good jobs which pay decent wages

Community tax reform

Tax the Rich, fix the economy

5p transition charge on transactions over £20.

Regain control over the Covid-19 pandemic

Aging research (Why do we age and how to prevent it)

Expand access to the Motability Scheme

Rebalance taxation to support a more circular economy

Re-establishing the Sunflower lanyards

Stop forced treatment

NHS to make better use of private healthcare

Sport Scotand to recognise Sports on an equal funding basis

Social Care delivery

Reform of transgender healthcare

improve public transport, don't build more roads.

Workplace Democracy

Childfree public spaces and housing across Scotland

Covid 19 recovery - end factory farming

Nature recovery targets

Football

My trans son getting better and quicker access to services.

More community gardens and allotments for urban dwellers

re opening libraries

Improve the road network throughout Scotland

Allow responsible dog owners to continue using e-collars

Develop community assemblies.

Free transport for unpaid carers

spaces for people removal

Ban Disposable Barbeques & Limit Campfires

Rural communities are not just farmers

Holding Public Bodies To Account

Land Value Tax

Clean Air Legislation in Argyll & Bute

Abolish the BBC tv licence

Fully Protect Freedom of Speech for Everyone

Get rid of Spaces for People and Low Traffic Neighbourhood

Free public transport for all

Stop new plastic production globally

Value farming

Set up and maintain a Land Ownership register.

Period dignity for girls

Ending export of plastic "recycling" to any other countries

Rshe (Relationships, Sex and Health Education)

Rewet peat bogs as a matter of urgency

create a national energy company

sexmatters

Gender and Sex in Education

Stop trimming road verges

Gender critical awareness in framing legislation which impac

freeing up underoccupied homes

The government must increase support for the Scots language

Accountability within authorities

Ban digging from peat bogs entirely

grandparents have no access to family courts

Support arts education across all levels

Teach Scotland’s Colonial Legacy in Schools

Completely reform education curriculums and grading system

Opportunity for young people to study psychology

Combat Online Radicalisation in Schools

Introduce bilingual education for community languages

improving the education of our children

Investigate Flats & Repairs

Affordable housing

Ban China from selling non refundable goods

Legalise cannabis

Independence

Decriminalise Drug Possession

Set up a Constitution for an Independent Scotland.

Allow constituents to instruct MSP's on their vote wishes

Make parents legally responsible for damage done by kids

Review of SPS Policy on Transgender Prisoners

Remove illegal trans guidance from schools

Citizens Assembly

A Gaelic Language (Public Administration) ( Scotland) Act

Gaelic as Language of Contract in Public Sector Procurement

Extend concessionary ferry vouchers to Islanders Under 25

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