- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all private sector housing developments with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form.
Answer
The Scottish Government recently published information on the number of housing developments granted planning consent, where a private developer has agreed to make a contribution towards affordable housing. This official statistics publication (covering the 2005-07 financial years) is available on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/25153806/0.
Statistics on the total number of private sector housing developments granted planning consent are not held centrally. Hence the Scottish Government does not hold information on private contributions in the form requested.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £25 million incentive scheme for building council houses will be evenly spread over three years.
Answer
Our aim in making the £25 million available to incentivise new council house building is to ensure that our investment contributes to the delivery of as many new homes as possible. Decisions on how the money will be allocated will be reached following discussions with our partners in local government.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of private sector housing developments of 10 to 19 units with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form and how many new affordable housing units these identified for each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12611 on 13 May 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of private sector housing developments of 50 units and above with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form and how many new affordable housing units these identified for each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12611 on 13 May 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding was allocated for the Mortgage to Rent scheme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06.
Answer
The Mortgage to Rent scheme is demand-led. The level of funding allocated to the scheme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06 was as follows:
| Financial Year | Level of Funding (£) |
| 2003-04 | 3.25 million |
| 2004-05 | 4.00 million |
| 2005-06 | 7.00 million |
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide guidance to local authorities and community planning partnerships on the use of community regeneration funding to support registered social landlords in social enterprise activities.
Answer
Strategic guidance on the new Fairer Scotland Fund, which has replaced a number of previous community regeneration programmes and their individual monitoring regimes, was provided to Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) in February. Local funding decisions are a matter for individual CPPs.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many security firms have had licences refused by the Security Industry Authority since its inception.
Answer
Under the Private Security Industry Act 2001 individuals not companies are subject to licensing by the Security Industry Authority (SIA). The SIA does, however maintain an approved contractor scheme. Information about the operation of that scheme can be obtained from the SIA.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to ensure that the delivery of the Social Enterprise Strategy for Scotland will fully encompass the role of registered social landlords.
Answer
Better Business: A strategy and action plan for social enterprise in Scotland was a one year action plan (April 2007 to March 2008) and included actions on the role of registered social landlords.
The forthcoming Enterprising Third Sector Action Plan 2008-11 will build on the success of that previous plan and will recognise the role of registered social landlords in developing and supporting social enterprise. The action plan will include a commitment to work with other funders, including the Government''s Wider Role Fund for registered social landlords.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many security firms have had licences refused by the Security Industry Authority as a result of the criminal connections of the owners of the firms.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12402 on 8 May 2008. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-11440 by Stewart Maxwell on 15 April 2008, how its statement that “allocation of housing association grant only is not separately recorded” can be reconciled with the answer to question S3W-3354 by Stewart Maxwell on 29 August 2007 that “records of Housing Association Grant paid to registered social landlords, broken down by local authority area, are available back to 1996-97”.
Answer
The response to S3W-11440 correctly stated that allocation of housing association grant by local authority area is not separately recorded. The grant allocation at the beginning of each financial year is a single figure which includes provision for all relevant elements of the affordable housing investment programme. In addition to housing association grant, this includes grant mechanisms such as rural home ownership grant, rural empty property grants, grants for the physical and social environment and special needs capital grants.
However, records are kept on actual spend of Housing Association Grant and the response to S3W-3354 provided this. These figures were provided alongside an indication of Communities Scotland approved Development Programme for 2007-08. The approved development programme figures included proposed spend on housing association grant, grants for the physical and social environment, Glasgow Housing Association grants and community ownership programme grants. These are classed as approved development programme allocations but are different grant mechanisms to housing association grant.
