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-23906
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S6O-02702 by Paul McLennan on 9 November 2023, regarding its statement that "the £3.5 billion budget that we had set aside has effectively been cut in value by £700 million", whether any such reduction in value has taken place over one year or multiple years; what the annual sum of any such reduction is, and what the estimated real-terms value of the £3.5 billion is expected to be in each of the remaining years of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-23905
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many buildings currently remain in the Single Building Assessment pilot, and how many have been (a) completed and (b) removed from the pilot.
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Question reference: S6W-23836
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken to consider the number of (a) affordable, (b) social and (c) private homes that could be delivered on Scottish Government land should the estate be rationalised.
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Question reference: S6W-23763
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many times the Housing to 2040 Strategic Board has met since its inaugural meeting in March 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-23762
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many more times the Housing to 2040 Strategic Board must meet in the year up to its first anniversary on 22 March 2024 to meet the commitment for the board to increase the number of times it meets from two to three times a year.
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Question reference: S6W-23327
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-20670 by Paul McLennan on 11 September 2023, whether it will provide an update on the dates on which the Innovative Finance Steering Group (a) has met and (b) plans to meet in (i) 2023 and (ii) 2024, and when it expects to publish the high level updates on the work of the group.
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Question reference: S6W-23571
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many hectares of vacant and derelict land have been brought back into use as a result of the fund that it announced on 19 December 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-23570
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the £50 million fund announced on 19 December 2020 to bring vacant and derelict land back into use has been allocated to date.
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Question reference: S6W-23569
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the £50 million fund announced on 19 December 2020 to bring vacant and derelict land back into use has been used to invest in new affordable housing.
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Question reference: S6W-23334
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it spent on the consultation for a Fairer Council Tax.