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-24812
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time taken to determine a major housing development application has been in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-24818
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 January 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 5 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been convicted of offences under section 56 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014.
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Question reference: S6W-24673
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 30 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-20844 by Paul McLennan on 13 September 2023, what the (a) purchase price and (b) grant offered was for each property in the applications received and approved (i) prior to and (ii) since the announcement on 19 July 2023, and whether it will also provide a breakdown of these figures by applications from (A) registered social landlords and (B) local authorities.
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Question reference: S6O-03020
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether its local development plan regulations will provide a framework for discounted sale tenure as part of any affordable home ownership requirements.
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Question reference: S6W-24471
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what Scottish caseload and application modelling it anticipates it will receive from the UK Government in the event that the recommendations in the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report, Review and Update of the Prescription for Prescribed Disease D1 (Pneumoconiosis), are implemented by the UK Government.
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Question reference: S6W-24459
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is, regarding the impact in Scotland, to the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report, Review and Update of the Prescription for Prescribed Disease D1 (Pneumoconiosis), and what the potential implications are for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit applicants in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-24460
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will be required to accept any amendments, as they apply in Scotland, to the Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1985, in accordance with the report, Industrial Injuries Scheme Benefits in Scotland: Agency Agreement, in the event that the UK Government accepts the recommendations in the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report, Review and Update of the Prescription for Prescribed Disease D1 (Pneumoconiosis), and whether this will require the Scottish Ministers to lay a Scottish statutory instrument in order to do so.
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Question reference: S6W-24461
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether its plans for Employment Injury Assistance include (a) accepting or (b) rejecting the recommendations, as they apply in Scotland, in the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report, Review and Update of the Prescription for Prescribed Disease D1 (Pneumoconiosis).
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Question reference: S6W-24458
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people in Scotland (a) are currently in receipt of and (b) have made an application since 1 April 2020 for, Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit in relation to a diagnosis of the prescribed disease, pneumoconiosis, and, of these, how many would not receive this benefit as new applicants in the event that the recommendations in the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report, Review and Update of the Prescription for Prescribed Disease D1 (Pneumoconiosis), are implemented by the UK Government.
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Question reference: S6W-24409
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 22 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government which organisations will have a role in contributing to the reported forthcoming review of its target to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, with a focus on the delivery timeline.