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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.

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Question reference: S6W-10715

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the findings from the 2021 Scottish House Condition Survey.

The Scottish Government intends to publish the key findings from the 2021 Scottish House Condition Survey in February 2023. This was communicated to users through a ScotStat email and is published on forthcoming publications and Scottish Household Survey webpages on the Scottish Government website.

Any changes to this date will be communicated to users, in line with the code of practice for statistics .

Question reference: S6W-10437

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the consequences will be for any local authority that does not have its short-term lets licensing scheme established by 1 October 2022.

Question reference: S6W-10436

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether any local authority has requested an extension to the deadline for establishing a short-term lets licensing scheme by 1 October 2022, and what consideration has been given to any such request.

Question reference: S6W-10793

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many recorded incidents of bicycle theft there have been in each year since 2017, and, of those, how many resulted in a conviction.

The following table details the number of recorded crimes of theft of a pedal cycle for the March year end data for reporting years 2016-17 to 2021-22.

Table: Number of theft of a pedal cycle crimes recorded by the police, Scotland, 2016-17 to 2021-22

Reporting Year	Crimes
2016-17	5,430
2017-18	6,069
2018-19	5,093
2019-20	4,600
2020-21	5,484
2021-22	4,441

Source: Recorded Crime in Scotland National Statistics dataset

Information on the number of people convicted for bicycle theft isn’t held centrally as crimes of bicycle theft are reported under the charge of ‘other theft’ and a further breakdown by article(s) stolen is not available.

Question reference: S6W-10498

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government which minister signed off the Island Communities Impact Assessment carried out as part of its consultation on proposals for the regulation of short-term lets, published on 10 December 2020.

Question reference: S6W-10626

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been convicted of motoring offences where being unfit to drive due to alcohol or drugs was the main charge in each year since 2017.

Information is available from the Criminal Proceedings in Scotland 2020-21 statistical publication.

Table 4(b) in the main tables provides information on the number of convictions for 'Driving under influence'; and the additional dataset titled 'Drink and Careless driving' provides further information on the number of convictions for causing death by careless driving when under influence of drink/drugs.

These can be found under the 'Supporting documents' at this link - Criminal Proceedings in Scotland, 2019-20 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Question reference: S6W-10631

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many homes in each local authority area have been built through the (a) Rural Housing and (b) Islands Housing Fund since November 2021.

Question reference: S6W-10443

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the full operational costs of Circularity Scotland in (a) 2020-21 and (b) 2021-22.

Question reference: S6W-10442

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an updated estimate on the annual cost of operating the Deposit Return Scheme in a "steady state" as set out in the full business case addendum, which was published on 16 March 2020.

Question reference: S6W-10630

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 20 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated to improve the energy efficiency of (a) business buildings, (b) local authority buildings (excluding housing), (c) social housing and (d) domestic housing in each year from 2020 to 2022.

Funding the Scottish Government has allocated to improve energy efficiency of buildings 2020 to 2022

	2020 - 2021	2021 - 2022	2022- 2023
(a) Business buildings	£8,000,000	£8,750,000	£8,000,000
(b) Local authority buildings	£1,590,000	£3,085,000	£4,500,000
(c) Social housing	£20,000,000	£30,000,000	£30,000,000
(d) Domestic housing	£103,000,000	£137,000,000	£161,000,000

* The Schemes and funding included in the figures: (a) Business Buildings - SME Loan Scheme and SME Cashback, (b) Local authority buildings - Public Sector Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme, (c) Social housing - Zero Emission Housing Fund and “Fabric First” Energy Efficiency Projects, (d)Domestic housing - Home Energy Scotland Loan, Home Energy Scotland Cashback, Area Based Schemes and Warmer Homes Scotland. The schemes and funding cover both heat and energy efficiency and can't be separated. The Domestic housing figures do not include Social Housing funding.

Domestic housing figures do not include Social Housing funding.

Council	Rural	Islands
Argyll & Bute	0	6
Dumfries & Galloway	4	-
Highland	10	4
Moray	8	-
Scottish Borders	2	-
Western Isles	-	1
Total	24	11