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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.

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-27113

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many applications have been (a) received and (b) approved for the National Acquisition Plan for properties that have been earmarked to be used for temporary accommodation.

Question reference: S6W-27110

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many applications from (a) registered social landlords and (b) local authorities have been (i) received and (ii) approved for the National Acquisition Plan in total, also broken down by the types of purchase applied for, including (i) open market purchases with vacant possession, (ii) off-market purchases with vacant possession, (iii) purchases where an owner-occupier cannot afford the required maintenance or refurbishment of their home and wishes to sell and remain in the home as a tenant in the social rented sector, (iv) off-the-shelf purchases from developers and (v) properties from landlords leaving the private rented sector with a tenant in situ.

Question reference: S6W-27109

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the £80 million uplift in funding to help tackle homelessness, announced on 26 April 2024.

Question reference: S6W-27108

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government from which existing budget line the commitment to uplift the Affordable Housing Supply Programme by £80 million will be funded.

Question reference: S6W-27112

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of the original funding that was allocated to the National Acquisition Plan has been distributed to each successful application, and whether it will provide an update on how much each successful applicant has spent of its distributed funding to date.

Question reference: S6W-26600

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 March 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 24 April 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £97.4 million of cladding remediation funding it has spent to date.

Question reference: S6W-26682

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2024
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 24 April 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can confirm whether (a) all combustible cladding and insulation is banned for use above 11m in height on the buildings captured under the Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 and (b) combustible plastic foam insulation and combustible cladding such as high-pressure laminates and metal composite panels using combustible cores can no longer be used on the buildings captured in the scope of the ban.

Question reference: S6W-26978

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 8 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £60 million National Acquisition Programme funding had been spent by the end of the 2023-24 financial year, and how many social homes this funding delivered, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-26684

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 23 April 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the minutes of any meetings of the Single Building Assessment Task and Finish Group.

Question reference: S6W-26685

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 23 April 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to any conversations that it has had with the wider sector, what its current understanding is of any risks associated with PAS 9980 as a methodology for fire risk appraisal of external wall and cladding construction in the context of the current ban on combustible façade materials in Scotland.

As part of the preparation of the SBA (Single Building Assessment process) Scottish Government has had conversations with the wider sector, including Fire Engineers and Assessors where we have discussed the need for a FRAEW (Fire Risk Appraisal of External Wall).

When assessing an existing building’s EWS (External wall system), it is noted that existing buildings cannot be expected to meet modern Building Regulation standards for risk to human life as these buildings were built during a time when less onerous Building Regulations were in force. The PAS 9980 will be used by assessors to make an informed expert decision of whether or not the EWS is a low, medium or high risk and dictate from this whether or not the current build up is tolerable, and no further remediation is required, or the risk is intolerable and therefore remediation should be undertaken.

The aim of a SBA is not to bring a building into compliance with current Building Regulations, but to ensure that the risk to building occupants is reduced to a tolerable level. The focus of the remediation is to follow the recommendations in the SBA in how to bring the relevant parts of the building to either a low, or tolerable risk level. Where large areas of the façade are being remediated, alterations will be required to comply with current (fire) building regulations including the use of acceptable materials. To note that the current ban applies to any new building warrant applications only.