Our Policies
Reform UK offers a clear, common-sense alternative for Scotland. Our policies are designed to cut your taxes, improve your public services, and give Glasgow Cathcart Pollok the representation it deserves in Holyrood.
Scottish Manifesto
Read our comprehensive manifesto for Scotland, outlining our vision and detailed policy commitments for the Scottish Parliament.
Housing
Reform UK wants more affordable homes, quicker brownfield development, and housing rules that give local people a fairer chance. That is highly relevant in Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, where the city's housing emergency shows how badly supply and temporary accommodation pressures have built up.
Key Commitments
- Support delivery of more affordable homes with councils empowered to build
- Prioritise brownfield and vacant-site development before unnecessary sprawl
- Give councils stronger powers over vacant and neglected properties
- Back rent-to-buy options for young people, first-time buyers, and working families
- Restore local connection rules so scarce social housing serves established communities first
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
Glasgow has declared a housing emergency, with thousands of homeless households waiting for rehousing and thousands more in temporary accommodation. Reform's housing approach is aimed at increasing supply, bringing empty sites back into use, and making sure limited social housing works better for local families.
Immigration
Reform UK backs controlled immigration, stronger borders, and a system that puts local people first when homes and public services are already under strain. In Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, that means linking national border policy to local housing pressure and community confidence.
Key Commitments
- Restore the local connection rule for housing in Scotland so locals are not pushed back in the queue
- End Glasgow's dispersal-city status so the city is not expected to carry a disproportionate burden
- Strengthen border control and remove illegal arrivals swiftly
- Put local people first where housing and public services are already overstretched
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
This constituency sits inside a city where housing demand and temporary accommodation pressure are already high. Reform's position is that fair rules, controlled immigration, and a restored local-connection test would ease pressure on scarce homes and local services.
NHS & Healthcare
Reform UK wants an NHS that is free at the point of need and focused on frontline care rather than bureaucracy. For Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, that means better GP access, stronger hospital flow, and community services that reduce pressure on families and wards.
Key Commitments
- Cut bureaucracy and redirect funding to frontline care
- Expand GP and community-based services so more treatment happens closer to home
- Train and retain more doctors and nurses in Scotland
- Tackle delayed discharge and strengthen adult social care support
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
Families across Glasgow Southside rely on timely GP appointments, hospital care, and social care that actually works. With south locality health and social care services under pressure, Reform's approach is aimed at shorter waits, better staffing, and less strain on hospitals and carers.
Local Services & Communities
Reform UK wants local authorities to have more control over revenue, spending, and service priorities so decisions are made closer to the communities affected. For Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, that means protecting core services and helping neighbourhood centres recover with less centralised bureaucracy.
Key Commitments
- Give councils more control over revenue and spending decisions
- Review duplication and unfunded obligations that weaken frontline delivery
- Support regeneration of brownfield sites and neglected local centres
- Refocus local government on practical basics such as clean streets, safer public spaces, and reliable services
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
When Glasgow is under pressure on housing, social care, and public services, local leaders need the flexibility to focus on what matters most in each neighbourhood. Reform's local-government approach is aimed at stronger accountability, more practical regeneration, and better day-to-day service delivery for communities across the constituency.
Transport & Infrastructure
Reform UK wants practical investment in roads, rail, buses, and wider infrastructure so people can get to work, education, and healthcare without endless delay or disruption. In Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, dependable southside connectivity matters for daily life and economic opportunity.
Key Commitments
- Back long-term investment in transport links that improve everyday connectivity
- Improve roadworks management so disruption is reduced and jobs are completed faster
- Support stronger bus and rail links instead of leaving communities with unreliable journeys
- Back strategic schemes that connect underserved areas to jobs, healthcare, and education
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
Residents depend on buses, rail stations, and cross-city links for work, appointments, and study. SPT says Clyde Metro is intended to improve unaffordable, unreliable, and poorly connected public transport, especially for underserved areas, and Reform's transport message should speak directly to that need for dependable local connectivity.
Cost of Living
Reform UK wants people to keep more of what they earn by cutting tax, capping punitive marginal rates, and bringing down the bills that flow through every household budget. That matters in Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, where rent, food, transport, and utility costs are stretching working families.
Key Commitments
- Cut Scottish income tax so workers keep more of each pay packet
- Cap marginal tax rates at 50 percent so extra work always pays
- Lower energy-driven costs that feed into prices across the economy
- Make work pay more clearly than welfare dependency
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
Households across Cathcart, Pollok, and nearby neighbourhoods are feeling pressure from everyday essentials as well as housing and travel costs. Reform's cost-of-living offer is designed to put more money back into household budgets and make earning more worthwhile.
Crime & Community Safety
Reform UK wants tougher policing, visible enforcement, and faster consequences for persistent offenders and antisocial behaviour. In Glasgow Cathcart and Pollok, that means backing residents who want safer streets, safer local centres, and less tolerance for repeat offending.
Key Commitments
- Back visible policing and give officers freedom to focus on real crime
- Target repeat offenders, shoplifting, and antisocial behaviour more aggressively
- Restore tougher sentencing for serious and persistent offenders
- Support practical local action on road safety and neighbourhood disorder
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
Community groups in and around Cathcart have continued to raise concerns about antisocial behaviour, shoplifting, and road safety issues. Reform's law-and-order pitch is aimed at giving residents more confidence that everyday disorder will be taken seriously rather than brushed aside.
Energy Prices
Reform UK says energy bills are being pushed up by costly policy choices and wants cheaper domestic energy, more security of supply, and clearer scrutiny of what decisions do to prices. Lower energy costs would help both households and small businesses across the constituency.
Key Commitments
- Scrap Net Zero targets, subsidies, and quangos that drive bills higher
- Back North Sea oil and gas and end the ban on new nuclear
- Fast-track practical energy infrastructure that improves resilience and supply
- Require Energy Price Impact Statements so voters can see the cost of policy choices
What This Means for Glasgow Cathcart Pollok
High energy costs hit families directly and also push up prices in local shops, hospitality, and other small businesses. Reform's plan is aimed at reducing those pressures while backing secure Scottish energy production and more reliable supply.
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