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-10922
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on which dates it has met representatives of the mortgage lending industry to discuss the implications of the cost of living crisis for homeowners with mortgages on their property.
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Question reference: S6W-10685
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what Home Energy Scotland’s (a) budget and (b) actual spend has been to support (i) unique households, (ii) advice interactions, including advice provided to customers during telephone or email advice discussions, and (iii) low-income, potentially fuel-poor clients who were offered support in each year of its operation.
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Question reference: S6W-10686
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) unique households, (b) advice interactions, including advice provided to customers during telephone or email advice discussions and (c) low-income, potentially fuel-poor clients who were offered support Home Energy Scotland (i) has had capacity to support and (ii) has actually supported, in each year of its operation.
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Question reference: S6W-10262
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it last updated the HOSFGN/002: Property Thresholds Guidance for the Home Owners' Support Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-10240
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Home Owners’ Support Fund, what (a) written or electronic (i) promotional materials (ii) briefings and (iii) training and (b) promotional meetings it has provided or offered to (A) money advisers acting on behalf of applicants (B) social landlords who are part of the Mortgage to Rent scheme (C) trustees acting on behalf of applicants (D) UK lenders and (E) others, in the last 12 months.
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Question reference: S6W-10244
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many households who have applied to the Home Owners' Support Fund since it started have (a) been protected from and (b) subsequently experienced homelessness.
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Question reference: S6W-10242
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has published average apartment rental charges, used to calculate purchase subsidy grants under the Home Owners' Support Fund, since 2017 and, if this is not the case, what the reasons are for its position on the matter.
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Question reference: S6W-10263
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the HOSFGN/002: Property Thresholds Guidance has been updated for 2022-23 and, if this is not the case, what it estimates (a) the updated property thresholds for the Home Owners’ Support Fund and (b) the number of households with outstanding mortgages with properties under the valuation thresholds would be, had the guidance been updated for 2022-23, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-10237
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08749 by Shona Robison on 14 June 2022, what modelling
it is undertaking to establish (a) the likely number of future applications to the
fund and (b) any risk of homelessness among mortgage payers, in light of the
Bank of England increasing the base rate to 1.75% and reports that inflation could
reach 13% by October 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-10243
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) enquiries about and (b) applications for the Home Owners' Support Fund it has received in each of the last six years, broken down by the (i) Mortgage to Rent and (ii) Mortgage to Shared Equity schemes, and, of those applications that were received, how many were (A) successful and (B) ineligible.
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