Scots could be offered up to £50,000 to stay or move to the islands under new proposed plans from the SNP.
In a bid to tackle the decline in the rural population in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon's party will set up a bonds plans if it's re-elected in May.
The First Minister is set to announce the plans for an Island Bonds scheme at her manifesto launch later today.
The initiative will aim to help people buy homes, start businesses in rural communities and stay for the long-term, the Courier revealed.
Sturgeon is expected to give more detail on the bonds plan during the manifesto launched which starts at 11am today.
It comes as the SNP pledged to invest a further £2.5billion into the NHS as it looks to recover from the devastating coronavirus pandemic.
At the launch today, she will back a rise in health spending of at least 20% by the end of the Parliament - if re-elected.
Sturgeon is expected to say: “As we recover, we have the opportunity to reimagine our country.
"Not to return just to how things were - but to build a better nation.
“At the heart of our programme is the National Health Service.
“If the SNP is re-elected we will use our experience to undertake a full-scale post-pandemic remobilisation of the NHS.
“And today I am pledging a transformational increase in frontline health spending.
“Investment in the NHS is already at record levels.
“But the pandemic has placed exceptional pressures on our NHS - and that requires an exceptional response.
“So over the next Parliament, we will increase frontline NHS spending by at least 20 per cent."
