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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4W-05393

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 28 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level 4 allocation for regeneration programmes was in the supporting economic growth/housing supply budget line in the Scottish budget 2011-12 prior to the announcement of a further £0.9 million in the spring revision announced on 31 January 2012.

The level 4 “Regeneration Programmes”, to which some of the £0.9 million funding will be attributed, had a budget of £25 million. The £0.9 million figure announced on 31 January 2012 is a combination of housing and regeneration funding. The regeneration budget line benefits from £0.35 million capital and will be used to fund projects undertaken by Clydebank Re-built Urban Regeneration Company. The remainder of the monies (£0.5 million capital) will be utilised for the boiler scrappage scheme, and that is part of a separate housing and regeneration level 4 “Fuel Poverty/Domestic Energy Efficiency/Climate Change” as announced on 15 February.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2012/02/boilerscrappage15022012.

Note: uses the level 4 descriptors provided for the 2012-13 budget process to ease illustration.

Question reference: S4W-05389

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 28 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what standards exist regarding noise insulation between upper and lower flats in socially rented properties and whether it plans to review these.

Question reference: S4W-05392

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what the level 4 allocation for affordable housing supply in the Scottish budget 2011-12 was prior to the announcement of a further £10 million in the spring revision announced on 31 January 2012.

Question reference: S4W-05390

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 23 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable homes have been procured in each local authority area under the first phase of the National Housing Trust initiative.

614 affordable homes have been procured to date in the following local authority areas under the first phase of the National Housing Trust initiative:

Local Authority	Number of Units
Aberdeen City Council	41
The City of Edinburgh Council	422
Falkirk Council	27
The Highland Council	57
Stirling Council	16
Scottish Borders Council	51

The potential procurement of up to a further 16 units within the Dundee City Council area is dependent on a planning decision to be taken by the local authority.

To date, 16 of these homes have been completed and let in Stirling Council’s area. The remaining 598 homes approved to date under the first phase of the initiative are expected to complete between spring 2012 and spring 2014.

Question reference: S4W-05391

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 23 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable homes procured under the first phase of the National Housing Trust initiative have been completed, broken down by local authority area, and when the remaining procured homes will be completed.

Question reference: S4O-00755

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive who has the right to dispose of historic buildings that have been gifted to communities.

Question reference: S4F-00473

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 February 2012

To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to improve confidence in the construction sector.

Question reference: S4O-00711

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the backlog maintenance risk profile of NHS Dumfries and Galloway, as reported in The State of the NHSScotland Estate 2011.

Question reference: S4W-05395

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 14 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a level 4 breakdown of how it will allocate the £4.5 million announced for road transport in the spring revision to the 2011-12 Scottish budget on 31 January 2011.

Question reference: S4O-00678

Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 February 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications are of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill for police support staff numbers.