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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 7 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-11543

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10188 by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022, whether those seven assessments have been finalised, and what the start dates are for the remediation of each of those buildings. 

Question reference: S6W-11539

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10193 by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022, regarding the single building assessment, what its position is on whether ventilated car parks under buildings may accelerate fire spread.

Question reference: S6W-11537

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the status is of each (a) single building assessment and (b) single building assessment application it has received under the grant-based approach.

Question reference: S6W-11538

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10193 by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022, regarding the single building assessment, how many queries it has received to date on the potential additional risk of fire spread related to car parks.

Question reference: S6W-11540

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S6W-10191 by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022, how many of those buildings, which have applied under the grant-based scheme, have received (a) partial and (b) full funding. 

Question reference: S6T-00933

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 31 October 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address the reported findings of an independent review of the cladding remediation programme that “successful delivery of the project is in doubt with major risks or issues apparent".

Question reference: S6W-10956

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10242 by Shona Robison on 7 September 2022, whether it will publish the (a) average apartment rental charges updated in line with CPI and (b) grant calculations shared with social landlords, for each year since 2017.

Question reference: S6W-10675

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10165 by Shona Robison on 19 August 2022, how many buildings over 11 metres it estimates are affected by combustible cladding.

Question reference: S6W-10677

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10165 by Shona Robison on 19 August 2022, what (a) assessment, (b) feasibility studies and (c) survey activity it has conducted to determine the number of buildings of 11 metres and over that will require (i) assessment for and (ii) remediation of combustible cladding.

Question reference: S6W-10733

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Home Owners' Support Fund Mortgage to Rent scheme, what the (a) total and (b) average purchase expenditure was, and how many purchases have been made under the scheme, in each year of operation.