Questions and answers
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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S5W-19556
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to identify letting agents that are not on or have been rejected for the Letting Agent Register; what enforcement action is taken to deal with these agents, and how it ensures that existing and potential clients are made aware of them.
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Question reference: S5W-19554
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available to assist clients that have lost money where a letting agent with no dedicated client account and/or client money protection policy has (a) used misappropriate accounting procedures or (b) gone out of business.
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Question reference: S5W-19555
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that letting agents that have registered on the Letting Agent Register without a dedicated client account arrange for the account to be in place, and what the timescale is for them to comply with this.
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Question reference: S5W-19568
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18127 by Kevin Stewart on 30 August 2018, whether there are plans to regulate temporary accommodation to meet a minimum EPC rating.
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Question reference: S5W-19567
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it ensures that all registered letting agents correctly display their registration number.
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Question reference: S5O-02526
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on permanently linking the non-domestic rates poundage to the consumer price index.
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Question reference: S5W-19328
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the Register of Letting Agents were received by the 1 October 2018 deadline, and whether all those received have been processed and approved.
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Question reference: S5W-19301
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is planning to review the Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981 and, if so, what the timetable is for this.
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Question reference: S5W-18890
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it set the time limit for landlords to make mandatory electrical inspection of rental properties at five years; who it consulted on this, and what other options it considered before reaching this decision.
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Question reference: S5O-02415
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 September 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many STEM apprentices there are, and how many of these are in North and South Lanarkshire.
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