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
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Question reference: S6W-02877
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Shelter Scotland report, Understanding the True Cost of Evictions in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-02405
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will spend on the media campaign to raise awareness of the new fire safety laws; how long it will run for, and what the estimated (a) total potential target audience and (b) reach of the campaign will be.
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Question reference: S6W-02370
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01472 by Michael Matheson on 10 August 2021, (a) how many and (b) what value of applications have been received for each local authority area in each of the last five years, also broken down by the total value of the loan offers that (i) it subsequently made and (ii) were not taken up.
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Question reference: S6W-02115
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2021
As at 6 September, against a total of 1051 applications there have been 481 unsuccessful applications[1], representing 46% of total applications.
Within the unsuccessful applications there were 158 social rented sector tenants and 323 private rented sector tenants.
We do not hold a breakdown of unsuccessful applications by local authority although this information is gathered at initial application level in the following table.
Number of applications per local authority | |||
Local authority | Total | Social | PRS |
#N/A | 13 | 2 | 11 |
Aberdeen City | 52 | 18 | 34 |
Aberdeenshire | 28 | 14 | 14 |
Angus | 10 | 1 | 9 |
Argyll & Bute | 6 | 4 | 2 |
Clackmannanshire | 11 | 8 | 3 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 19 | 6 | 13 |
Dundee City | 57 | 19 | 38 |
East Ayrshire | 46 | 22 | 24 |
East Dunbartonshire | 5 | 2 | 3 |
East Lothian | 12 | 3 | 9 |
East Renfrewshire | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Edinburgh, City of | 132 | 23 | 109 |
Falkirk | 28 | 8 | 20 |
Fife | 54 | 17 | 37 |
Glasgow City | 179 | 74 | 105 |
Highland | 23 | 4 | 19 |
Inverclyde | 16 | 7 | 9 |
Midlothian | 10 | 3 | 7 |
Moray | 13 | 5 | 8 |
North Ayrshire | 31 | 11 | 20 |
North Ayshire | 1 | 1 | 0 |
North Lanarkshire | 52 | 22 | 30 |
Orkney Islands | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Perth & Kinross | 43 | 21 | 22 |
Renfrewshire | 34 | 5 | 29 |
Scottish Borders | 10 | 2 | 8 |
Shetland Islands | 2 | 0 | 2 |
South Ayrshire | 30 | 7 | 23 |
South Lanarkshire | 51 | 17 | 34 |
Stirling | 10 | 5 | 5 |
West Dunbartonshire | 27 | 12 | 15 |
West Lothian | 39 | 22 | 17 |
Total | 1051 | 368 | 683 |
[1] Includes 19 applications rejected because of non-eligibility for funding.
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Question reference: S6W-02114
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review unsuccessful Tenant Hardship Loan Fund applications for suitability to apply to the grant fund announced in June 2021 to support tenants struggling to pay their rent as a direct result of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S6W-02112
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether Tenant Hardship Loan Fund debtors will have a right to convert their loan to a grant.
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Question reference: S6W-02109
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the consultation on its short-term lets draft Licensing Order and Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), how many of the estimated 32,000 short-term lets it anticipates will return to the long-term housing market following the implementation of its plans.
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Question reference: S6W-02111
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the consultation on its short-term lets draft Licensing Order and Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), what method it used to estimate that there are 32,000 short-term lets in Scotland, and whether it will provide a breakdown of this figure by how many are (a) a single room in a property, (b) a shared room in a property, (c) an entire property and (d) unconventional accommodation such as an outhouse or yurt.
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Question reference: S6W-02110
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the estimated number of (a) empty private residential properties, (b) empty public sector residential properties, (c) second homes and (d) self-catering units there currently are.
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Question reference: S6W-02092
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 2 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications from registered social landlords (RSL) seeking consent to waive the Right to Recover Grant it has approved each year, broken down by (a) RSL and (b) amount waived.