As part of the build-up to next month's General Election the Chronicle is asking all the local candidates for their views on a variety of topics.

In our latest instalment Lillian Jones, Scottish Labour's candidate in Kilmarnock and Loudoun, sets out her position, and her party's policies, on the environment.

Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan will unleash Scotland’s potential as a world –leader in clean energy and will disproportionately deliver for Scotland.

The establishment of GB Energy, a publicly owned company headquartered here in Scotland investing in new technologies and supporting over 50,000 clean energy jobs, lowering household bills and delivering energy security.

Labour’s bold energy plans would put Scotland in the global forefront of the transition to green energy.

Whilst the SNP tie themselves in knots on energy, Labour is clear – oil and gas will be part of the energy mix for decades to come and a Labour government will deliver the renewable energy infrastructure that we need for the future, partly paid for by a windfall tax on the excess profits of oil and gas giants.

Labour will create a National Wealth Fund delivering the most significant investment in the history of Scotland’s energy industry. We will invest in a net-zero industrial cluster at Grangemouth and support linked carbon capture and storage projects and a commitment to upgrade hundreds of thousands of cold draughty homes throughout Scotland helping to cut household energy bills by hundreds of pounds per year putting money back into people’s pockets.

Labour’s plans for a jobs bonus and port investment will make Scotland an attractive place to build supply chains ensuring the jobs stay in Scotland and are not offshored like what has happened under the Tories and SNP.