Achievements in Health
An extra £3.2 billion will be invested over the next 5 years to improving the health service

8 new hospital developments by 2003 with a capital investment of £480 million – 6 are already open

Free nursing and personal care for all older people – a £250 million package over two years helping 75,000 people

£100 million over four years in the Health Improvement Fund

£20 million Action Plan to reduce delayed discharges and free up more acute hospital beds

Introduced new National Standards for Care

Improved pay and conditions for all NHS staff, rewarding nurses with 3 year pay deal of 10%

Abolished internal market and GP fundholding

£52 million three year IT investment programme to ensure staff have more access to new IT and to implement new IT initiatives including NHS 24

£17.1 million committed for implementation of Mental Health Bill

1,400 more nurses and doctors

Since 1999 increased fourfold the number of "one stop" clinics to 370

100,000 children under 5 receiving free toothbrushes and toothpaste

Cut deaths from killer diseases such as cancer, heart disease and stroke

HCI hospital bought as National Waiting Times Centre

12 Accident and Emergency Centres upgraded

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Achievements in Transport

Free off-peak travel for older and disabled people

£690 million package of improvements to Scotland’s motorway and trunk road network over three years to 2004. M74 is being extended, the Glasgow Southern Orbital is being built.

Launched consultation on a 30 year vision for Scotland’s airports - pledged to create rail links to Edinburgh and Glasgow airports, and there are new terminals for Stornaway and Kirkwall airports

£235 million invested in the Scottish Public Transport Fund for over 100 projects

28 new trains to end overcrowding and improve journeys

Road Safety schemes to cut the number of children killed in traffic accidents

£26 million Rural Transport Fund to support lifeline services including ferries

Introduced the Bus Service Operators Grant regulations - will mean savings of between 70% and 80% on fuel bills for operators

£50.7 million Freight Facilities Grant leading to 21 million fewer lorry miles

579 public and rural transport projects across Scotland

Introduced Traveline Scotland answering 5,000 queries a week on public transport services

7 new ferries to maintain lifeline links for the Northern and Western Isles

£75 million Integrated Transport fund to drive forward transport integration (increased to £628.7 million for 2003/04 – 2005/6)

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Achievements in Crime and Justice

New legal powers to confiscate profits made by criminal drug dealing

The police clear up rate in Scotland has risen to 45 per cent - a post-war record

Police numbers are at a record level

Over the next three years £110 million will be spent on prisons

Youth Courts and fast track hearings to tackle youth crime

£100 million over three years to tackle drugs misuse in every community in Scotland

Extra half a billion pounds for police forces, fire brigades and the prison service between 2003-2004

Set up a national domestic abuse hotline

Introducing a humane replacement for warrant sales

Introduced greater protection for vulnerable witnesses and support for victims

Introduced drug courts, which are proving successful in dealing with drug offenders

Freedom of Information Act passed

Created Drugs Enforcement Agency - £37.4 million of drugs seized, including 280kg of Class A drugs

Over 2000 CCTV cameras to prevent crime and increase community safety

New laws to tackle racism

New legal powers to act against anti-social numbers

Strengthened sex offenders register

An extra £45.5 million allocated to tackling youth crime and implementing the 10-point action plan on youth crime

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Other Key Achievements

Tackling fuel poverty through the central heating initiative benefiting around 70,000 pensioners

Warm Deal has helped make 137,000 homes warmer and energy efficient

We have ended feudalism in Scotland, giving local communities the right to buy the land where they live

Invested in improving housing stock,- through the stock transfer, lifted Glasgow’s housing debt burden of around £900m making over £400m available to build new housing .

£24m child poverty package to help single parents into HE/FE by supporting childcare costs.

£70m in grant schemes for 5 years from 2001 to help farm businesses diversify

Established Equality Unit in the Scottish Executive to ensure equality is at the heart of policy making

£3m to employ an additional 100 money advisers as part of the Debt Arrangement and Attachment Bill

Abolished admission charges for the Royal Museum of Scotland – 27% increase in visitor numbers in 2001 to 2002

Largest ever funding package for voluntary sector (£39 million direct funding and £304 million indirect)

£169m over three years for Social Inclusion Partnerships

Largest Domestic Abuse funding package in UK

Scottish Refugee Integration Forum set up

£30.5m for the National Cultural Strategy.

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