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-11908
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what correspondence it has had with all identified privately owned high-rise buildings in regard to the Single Building Assessment programme ahead of their forthcoming invitation onto the survey programme in 2023, and how many buildings it has been in contact with.
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Question reference: S6W-11950
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07307 by Shona Robison on 25 March 2022, and in light of its tender, OCT462463, for the audit anticipating that the research will extend over six months, what the (a) scope and (b) timeline is of the empty homes audit.
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Question reference: S6W-11610
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many high rise buildings with aluminium composite material cladding that are owned by registered social landlords (a) have been remediated, (b) are currently being remediated and (c) remain un-remediated.
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Question reference: S6W-11771
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will have responsibility for the duty of care in relation to single building assessments.
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Question reference: S6W-11667
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Safer Buildings Accord has been agreed.
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Question reference: S6W-11770
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many communication (a) staff and (b) full time equivalent staff (i) began and (ii) ended their employment in the Cladding Remediation Unit in each month since May 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-11769
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many communication (a) staff and (b) full time equivalent staff were employed by the Cladding Remediation Unit in each month since May 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-11766
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07055 by Shona Robison on 15 March 2022, which states that, under the Cladding Stakeholder Group's terms of reference, material generated by the Group "should remain confidential", whether it will consider publishing any material generated from the group as a matter of course.
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Question reference: S6W-11767
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the option that was reportedly tabled at the meeting of the Cladding Stakeholder Group, on 19 January 2022, to split the single building assessment process to speed up processing.
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Question reference: S6W-11768
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when discussions regarding the alignment of work on tenement maintenance, energy efficiency, net zero and the use of the home report as a possible repository for single building assessment and EWS1 rating began, what the scope of that work is, and what progress has been made to date.
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