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-23333
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many staff members have been involved in the preparation, delivery, and collating of responses to the consultation on a Fairer Council Tax, and what the (a) staffing cost and (b) number of staff hours spent on the consultation process has been.
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Question reference: S6W-23238
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what responsibility the Minister for Housing has for the delivery of private housing.
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Question reference: S6W-23328
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what rate of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax is paid by non-resident house buyers.
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Question reference: S6W-23173
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-21271 by Patrick Harvie on 28 September 2023, how many (a) referrals (i) have been processed, and, of those, how many were deemed to be eligible applications and (ii) are still awaiting eligibility checks, (b) assessments have taken place and (c) installations (A) have started (B) have been completed and (C) are booked to start.
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Question reference: S6W-23200
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it accepted advice from officials to use the £30 million of Barnett consequential funding through the Moving on Fund in a way that recognises housing pressures in the round, rather than looking at support for Ukrainians and homelessness housing needs separately.
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Question reference: S6W-23208
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its review into the Home Owners' Support Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-23199
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it received the advice relating to the European Convention on Human Rights implications of Compulsory Rental Orders and Compulsory Sales Orders; whether it has been refreshed, and whether ministers have begun the "substantial consideration" that officials have suggested.
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Question reference: S6T-01678
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to protect local authorities from the risk of bankruptcy.
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Question reference: S6W-23032
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it financially supports small and medium-sized developers and housebuilders to design and progress planning applications for rural affordable housing plans at an early stage.
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Question reference: S6W-23033
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) progress it has made and (b) discussions it has had with the housing sector regarding setting an all-tenure housebuilding target.