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-09500
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08560 by Shona Robison on 25 May 2022, for what reason it did not list Rent Service Scotland as a data source for monitoring exit.
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Question reference: S6W-09501
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08560 by Shona Robison on 25 May 2022, whether Rent Service Scotland (a) requests and (b) records information from landlords detailing whether they have exited the market, as part of its data collection processes.
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Question reference: S6W-09499
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08560 by Shona Robison on 25 May 2022, how many landlords (a) have informed Rent Service Scotland that they have exited the market when the service has requested data from the sector and (b) it has requested data from, in each year since 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-09270
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the NESTA report, Estimating the willingness to pay for a heat pump, in determining the level of financial support that it will provide to householders, and the contribution of heat pumps, to meet its target for the rate of zero carbon heating system installations in new and existing homes and buildings to double every year from the current baseline to at least 64,000 installations in 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-09261
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many non-zero-emissions heating systems have been installed under the second Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing; how many such installations it has supported with funding, and how much funding it has provided for these non-zero-emissions heating system installations.
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Question reference: S6W-09495
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06962 by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022, what the reasons are for any delays in ministers meeting the responsibilities under paragraphs 2.28, 2.29 and 2.30 of Planning Circular 01/2021; whether it can confirm whether or not it has approved the control area under paragraph 2.28, and when it will publish its decision.
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Question reference: S6W-09269
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the updated affordable housing resource planning assumptions for local authorities are, in light of the Capital Spending Review.
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Question reference: S6W-09128
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it will next publish the tenant grant fund monitoring information; how regularly it will continue to publish the information, and what the latest (a) expenditure, (b) grant and (b) refusal figures are that it has received, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) period covered.
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Question reference: S6W-09182
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities are (a) required and (b) provided with guidance to record the grounds on which a tenant is evicted when (i) presenting as homeless and (ii) receiving notice under section 11 of the Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003.
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Question reference: S6W-08964
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06256 by Shona Robison on 24 February 2022, whether discussions on the proposed distribution of the Financial Transactions available for 2022-23 have concluded and allocations for the full use of these funds have been agreed.
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