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-11772
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many single building assessment pre-final reports from the grant-based approach it has received.
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Question reference: S6W-11761
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered levying a residential property developer tax.
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Question reference: S6W-11647
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it provided guidance to local authorities that it has widened the eligibility for the Tenant Grant Fund, and where that guidance is published.
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Question reference: S6W-11669
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding it has allocated to the Tenant Grant Fund as a result of its Programme for Government announcement to widen eligibility, broken down by the allocation to each local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-11648
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10972 by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022, whether it has requested updated data from local authorities since 31 March 2022, and which local authorities have (a) not provided data detailing expenditure, grant and refusal figures and (b) exhausted all of their Tenant Grant Fund allocation.
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Question reference: S6W-11526
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10687 by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022, and in light of the lack of updated data sources for some of the indicators, when the housing need and demand assessment process tool and its methodology were last reviewed, and when they were last subject to independent assurance.
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Question reference: S6W-11527
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10687 by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022, and in light of the lack of updated data sources for some of the indicators, whether it requires (a) local authorities and (b) housing market partnership areas to procure primary data to support the housing need and demand assessment process, and if this is the case, how any such primary data is used in the housing need and demand assessment tool.
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Question reference: S6W-11533
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10687 by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022, and in light of the lack of updated data sources for some of the indicators, whether it will commission household surveys in each (a) local authority and (b) housing market partnership area to verify the methodology of the housing needs and demand assessment, as part of the preparation of the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) Minimum All-Tenure Housing Land Requirement.
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Question reference: S6W-11528
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10687 by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022, and in light of the lack of updated data sources for some of the indicators, whether it has tested the housing need and demand assessment process tool using primary data, and if this is the case, what primary data it has commissioned for that purpose.
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Question reference: S6W-11534
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government which (a) local authority and (b) housing market partnership areas have conducted household surveys in preparation for housing and need demand assessments and the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) Minimum All-Tenure Housing Land Requirement.
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