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: S6W-08682
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for how many of the 25 buildings identified in the Single Building Assessment pilot have payments been received to enable the assessments to take place.
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Question reference: S6W-08677
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings of the Cladding Stakeholder Group a minister, other than the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, has attended since the group was established.
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Question reference: S6W-08683
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many buildings in Scotland have had combustible cladding (a) removed and (b) remediated since the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017.
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Question reference: S6W-08690
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Welsh Government’s plans to establish a support scheme to allow leaseholders to sell their property and where appropriate provide the option for them to either move on or rent the property back, which, reportedly, is to be funded by the Development Bank of Wales, what plans it has to establish such a scheme in Scotland, and whether it has explored the establishment of such a scheme with the Scottish National Investment Bank.
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Question reference: S6W-08684
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to bring forward legislation in similar terms to the Building Safety Act 2022, which was recently passed by the UK Parliament.
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Question reference: S6W-08687
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many digital surveys have been completed in Scotland on buildings with suspected combustible cladding.
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Question reference: S6W-08686
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government has had with her counterpart in the Welsh Government regarding the sharing of best practice on building safety.
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Question reference: S6W-08685
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been recruited to work in its cladding remediation unit in the last 12 months.
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Question reference: S6W-08681
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in connection with the recommendations of the Working Group on Mortgage Lending and Cladding, which reported in March 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-08688
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has chosen a model whereby it provides grants to fund Single Building Assessments rather than commissioning this work to be carried out directly on its behalf.
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