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-11531
- 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 how many adult children living with their parents would currently be counted as part of the parental household, under the housing need and demand assessment methodology.
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Question reference: S6W-11535
- 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 whether the Centre for Housing Market Analysis conducted an Equality Impact Assessment as part of its 2019 refresh of the housing needs and demand assessment process.
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Question reference: S6W-11530
- 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 what assessment it has made of the continued reliance on number of households data, as part of the housing needs and demand assessment process, as opposed to the number of people.
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Question reference: S6W-11532
- 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 how many (a) overcrowded (b) concealed and (c) overcrowded and concealed households would currently be excluded from housing need and demand assessments, in accordance with the prescribed methodology, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-11760
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether cladding remediation costs identified as a result of a single building assessment will be funded (a) fully or (b) partially, and what funding options the Scottish Ministers have considered, subsequent to the meeting of the Cladding Programme Board on 20 October 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-11649
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 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 answers to questions S6W-09128 and S6W-10972 by Shona Robison on 29 June and 20 September 2022, whether it will publish all data it has received from local authorities on Tenant Grant Fund spending to date.
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Question reference: S6W-11757
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Victoria State Government, Australia, regarding sharing experiences of cladding remediation programmes.
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Question reference: S6W-11542
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government which of the developers listed as having signed up to the Welsh Government’s Developers Pact, as set out in the Welsh Government’s Written Statement, Building Safety in Wales, published on 7 October 2022, have agreed to the Scottish Safer Buildings Accord.
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Question reference: S6W-11759
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether single building assessment reports are subject to peer review.
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Question reference: S6W-11758
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is the case that four companies are currently providing services to assess cladded buildings in Scotland, and that it could take these companies, focusing on this programme exclusively, a minimum of two years to assess all high rise buildings.
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