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Questions marked with a triangle (?) are initiated by the Scottish Government to facilitate the provision of information to the Parliament. Questions in which a member has indicated a declarable interest are marked with an “R”.
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DateFirst NameSurnameConstituencyPartyQuestion No.QuestionAnswered?Topic No. 1Topic No. 2
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Questions in date order: most recently asked at top of page
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12/01/2026PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-42930To ask the Scottish Government what progress NHS Scotland has made to meet its target of using renewable heating systems for all NHS-owned buildings by 2038.Answer expected on 26 January 2026Renewable HeatingNHS Estate
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12/01/0226BillKiddGlasgow AnnieslandScottish National PartyS6W-42971To ask the Scottish Government how many modern apprenticeship starts there have been (a) in each financial year between 2007-08 and 2024-25 and (b) since April 2025 to date, broken down by local authority area.Answer expected on 26 January 2026Modern apprenticeshipsLocal authorities
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09/01/2026TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42906To ask the Scottish Government whether Moray Council is eligible for funding from the Historic Environment Grants Programme to help repair the Spey Viaduct bridge.Answer expected on 23 January 2026HES GrantsSpey Viaduct Bridge
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09/01/2026TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42908To ask the Scottish Government when it will open the next funding round for the Just Transition Fund.Answer expected on 23 January 2026Just Transition Fund
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09/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42921To ask the Scottish Government what changes it plans to make to the (a) structure and (b) administration of the Just Transition Fund to ensure equitable, strategic and place-based distribution of funding in future rounds.Answer expected on 23 January 2026Just Transition Fund
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09/01/2026PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-42925To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the 3-30-300 vision for tree coverage in Scotland, and whether this is a useful mechanism for cities to envisage increased tree coverage.Answer expected on 23 January 2026Tree Coverage
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09/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42917To ask the Scottish Government how much in Just Transition Fund awards, expressed in (a) cash terms and (b) as a percentage of the total fund, has been allocated to each eligible local authority area.Answer expected on 23 January 2026Just Transition Fund
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07/01/2026JackieBaillieDumbartonScottish LabourS6W-42852To ask the Scottish Government when the reporter’s report from the Planning and Environmental Appeals Division for the Lomond Banks planning application was received by the Scottish Ministers, and whether they subsequently sought additional information in determining the appeal.Answer expected on 21 January 2026PlanningLomond Banks
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07/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42881To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to strengthen oversight of local authorities’ management of Common Good assets to ensure accountability and community benefit.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Common GoodLocal Authorities
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07/01/2026JackieBaillieDumbartonScottish LabourS6W-42846To ask the Scottish Government whether it has a strategy for (a) the conservation of and (b) investment in country parks.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Country Parks
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07/01/2026JackieBaillieDumbartonScottish LabourS6W-42850To ask the Scottish Government what planning applications called in by the Scottish Ministers for consideration in the last five years have been subject to public hearings.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Planning ApplicationsScot Gov
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07/01/2026JackieBaillieDumbartonScottish LabourS6W-42849o ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-38776 by Ivan McKee on 11 July 2025, whether it will provide an update on what planning applications called in by the Scottish Ministers have yet to be determined, and when they were first submitted for consideration.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Planning ApplicationsScot Gov
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07/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42882To ask the Scottish Government what initiatives it supports to raise public awareness of Common Good assets, their registers and decision-making processes.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Common GoodRegisters
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07/01/2026JackieBaillieDumbartonScottish LabourS6W-42853To ask the Scottish Government what meetings (a) the Scottish Ministers and (b) civil servants have had with representatives of Lomond Banks, and on what dates.Answer expected on 21 January 2026PlanningLomond Banks
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07/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42880To ask the Scottish Government what its current position is on modernising or replacing the 1491 Common Good legislation, in line with recommendations from the Scottish Land Commission.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Land CommissionCommon Good
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07/01/2026FultonMacGregorCoatbridge & ChrystonScottish National PartyS6W-42855To ask the Scottish Government how many affordable homes have been built in each local authority area since 2007, and how many of those have been for social housing.Answer expected on 21 January 2026Local authorityHousing
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05/01/2026PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-42794To ask the Scottish Government whether it will initiate discussions with Glasgow City Council on jointly acquiring the site of the former ABC venue on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow to facilitate the implementation of the Vision and Delivery Plan for the Golden Z prepared by Stantec, Threesixty Architecture and Kevin Murray Associates, which was approved by Glasgow City Council in August 2023 and proposes that the fire-damaged buildings on the site be cleared for a landscaped terrace, in light of reported concerns that the current planned redevelopment risks undermining the efforts to fully restore the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh Building.Answer expected on 19 January 2026At risk buildingsGlasgow
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05/01/2026ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-42653To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its reported commitment to integrate skills strategies into sectoral strategies, when these skills strategies will be published and which (a) sectors and (b) regions each will cover.Answer expected on 19 January 2026Skills strategy
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05/01/2026PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-42802To ask the Scottish Government what progress has taken place in the creation of a model for regional Scottish hubs and networks for the reuse of construction materials and assets, as set out in the Circular Economy and Waste Route Map to 2030. Answer expected on 19 January 2026circular economyWaste route map
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05/01/2026SarahBoyackLothianScottish LabourS6W-42814To ask the Scottish Government whether the proposed Tenements (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill will include a statutory right for owners to install EV charging infrastructure on common ground to override any obsolete title burdens that prevent the delivery of net zero targets in existing flatted developments.Answer expected on 19 January 2026Tenements BillEV Charging
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19/12/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourTo ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the reasons for all-sector new housing completions and starts not having recovered to their pre-2007-08 financial crisis trend of around 25,000 homes per annum.Answer expected on 16 January 2026HousingConstruction
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15/12/2025StephenKerrCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42322To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the alleged lack of crucial detail in the UK Warm Homes Plan and the impact on the Scottish Government's plans to introduce a Heat in Buildings Bill, what discussions it has had with UK Government ministers on this matter, and whether it will publish any related correspondence.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 12 January 2026heat in buildingscorrespondenceUK Warm Homes
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12/12/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-42553To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ask the Scottish Prison Service to commission the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, or a similar body, to carry out a feasibility study for the adaptive reuse of the buildings at HMP Barlinnie, which were recently designated as Category A listed, when the site is no longer operational as a prison.Answered by Angela Constance on 5 January 2026building reuseHMP Barlinniefeasibility study
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11/12/2025DouglasLumsdenNorth EastScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42529To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42085 by Gillian Martin on 5 December 2025, what information it has regarding the dates that the teams involved in Let’s Do Net Zero discussed the Heroes of Net Zero communications campaign, whether formal or informal minutes, notes or other records were taken of those discussions and, if so, whether it will publish these, and what criteria and processes were applied in deciding not to take the suggestion forward in 2025.Answered by Gillian Martin on 6 January 2026Net zero comms
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11/12/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42550To ask the Scottish Government how many trunk road bridges have been placed into so-called managed decline in each year since 2021.Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 January 2026managed declinetrunk road bridgesdata
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09/12/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42480To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to enforce the construction of affordable housing as a mandatory requirement for planning application considerations of onshore renewable energy developments in island communities.Answered by Ivan McKee on 24 December 2025onshore renewablesaffordable housingplanning
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09/12/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42479To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to enforce community (a) benefit payments and (b) equity ownership from onshore renewable energy developments as a mandatory requirement for planning application considerations.Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 January 2026onshore renewablesplanningcommunity benefit payments
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04/12/2025JamieGreeneWest ScotlandScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-42373To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to help reduce the number of vacant retail premises and revitalise local high streets in Inverclyde.Answered by Kate Forbes on 16 December 2025vacant premiseshigh streets
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04/12/2025BeatriceWishartShetland IslandsScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-42314To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the average annual cost in 2025 is to heat a home in (a) Scotland and (b) Shetland.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 December 2025datadomestic heatingShetland
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04/12/2025StephenKerrCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42323To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an updated cost benefit analysis comparing heat pumps with alternative low carbon heating technologies relevant to existing housing stock.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 December 2025renewablescost benefit analysis
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04/12/2025StephenKerrCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42320To ask the Scottish Government what the total projected cost is to homeowners of any future obligations relating to heat pumps and other non-carbon heating systems.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 December 2025renewablescost projection
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02/12/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42263To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its Planning and Environmental Appeals Division approved planning permission for the proposed battery energy storage site near Taynuilt, in light of it reportedly receiving 135 objections.Answered by Ivan McKee on 10 December 2025planning permissionbattery storageobjections
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02/12/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-42262To ask the Scottish Government whether its Planning and Environmental Appeals Division takes into account public concerns about fire risk when considering planning appeals for battery energy storage applications, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 December 2025fire riskbattery storage
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02/12/2025PatrickHarvieGlasgowScottish Green PartyS6W-42288To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the proposal for mandatory owners' associations for tenements, which it has asked the Scottish Law Commission to consider drafting legislation on, could be extended to include associations for outdoor areas, such as back lanes, which are generally owned by all adjacent private owners and can pose ongoing maintenance challenges.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 December 2025mandatory owners' associationsoutdoor areas
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01/12/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-42254To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-26978 by Paul McLennan on 7 May 2024, how (a) much funding has been spent through the National Acquisition Programme and (b) many social homes have been delivered in each local authority area in each year since it was first announced in June 2023.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 December 2025national acquisitiondata
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26/11/2025LornaSlaterLothianScottish Green PartyS6W-42198To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide information on (a) the documents that have incorporated updates from the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan to date, (b) any further documents expected to include these updates and (c) the proposed publication dates for each.Answered by Ben Macpherson on 11 December 2025climate emergency
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25/11/2025MarkRuskellMid Scotland and FifeScottish Green PartyS6W-42136To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the extent to which the Housing Emergency Action Plan is helping to meet its commitment to end homelessness.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 December 2025housing emergency
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21/11/2025DanielJohnsonEdinburgh SouthernScottish LabourS6W-42104To ask the Scottish Government (a) how and (b) when it was made aware of the increase in project capital costs for the Dunard Centre in Edinburgh from £45 million to £162 million.Answered by Kate Forbes on 9 December 2025capital costsDunard Centre
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21/11/2025DanielJohnsonEdinburgh SouthernScottish LabourS6W-42105To ask the Scottish Government what assurances it has received regarding potential further increases in construction costs for the Dunard Centre project in Edinburgh, and what assessment it has made of whether there is ongoing public support, in light of the operational costs.Answered by Kate Forbes on 9 December 2025constructionpublic supportDunard Centre
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20/11/2025JamieGreeneWest ScotlandScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-42071To ask the Scottish Government how many planning applications are currently stalled due to infrastructure constraints in the West Scotland region.Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 December 2025planning applications
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20/11/2025JamieGreeneWest ScotlandScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-42072To ask the Scottish Government how many planning officials there currently are in Scotland, and what assessment it has conducted of any future need.Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 December 2025planning officials
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19/11/2025StuartMcMillanGreenock and InverclydeScottish National PartyS6W-42025To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to update the Building Standards technical handbooks to phase-out the installation of low-level letterbox doors in Scotland.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 December 2025building standards
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18/11/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41982To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its position regarding the reported community request to introduce an entry fee for non-residents at the Calanais Standing Stones Visitor Centre, to support the site's long-term care.Answered by Angus Robertson on 2 December 2025entry feescalanais standing stonesfunding
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18/11/2025ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-41961To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to any future policy changes that would ensure that solar thermal installations are treated comparably to other clean heating solutions, both for the purposes of grant support schemes and EPC assessments.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 December 2025renewablesclean heating
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18/11/2025WillieRennieNorth East FifeScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41950To ask the Scottish Government how many school buildings in the Argyll and Bute Council area are currently assessed as not fit for purpose, and what the estimated cost of repair or replacement is associated with each such building.Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 November 2025school buildings
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18/11/2025ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-41964To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any impact of solar thermal installations on a building's Energy Performance Certificate (EPC).Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 December 2025EPCsrenewables
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14/11/2025DouglasLumsdenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41893To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to use the discussions and outcomes from the COP30 UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, to inform the finalisation and implementation of its draft Climate Change Plan, including any changes that it anticipates making to the actions and timescales set out in the draft plan up to 2040.Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 December 2025COP30Climate Change Draft Plan
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14/11/2025DouglasLumsdenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41895To ask the Scottish Government what its plans are for reporting to the Parliament on the outcomes of its participation at the COP30 UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, including any (a) new commitments, (b) financial pledges, (c) international initiatives or partnerships entered into and (d) follow-up workstreams agreed by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy.Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 December 2025COP30financial pledges
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14/11/2025DouglasLumsdenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41894To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to use the discussions and outcomes from the COP30 UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, to inform the finalisation and implementation of its draft Energy Strategy.Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 December 2025COP30energy strategy
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14/11/2025DouglasLumsdenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41892To ask the Scottish Government what its priorities are for using its platform at the COP30 UN climate summit in Belem, Brazil, to contribute to international discussions on (a) climate finance, (b) climate justice and (c) the global debt crisis, and what specific outcomes it is seeking to achieve in each of these areas.Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 December 2025COP30climate finance
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13/11/2025BrianWhittleSouth ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41853To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41171 by Gillian Martin on 27 October 2025, whether the Energy Consents Unit employs AI in its processes for dealing with representations by members of the public and, if not, whether it plans to do so.Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 November 2025energy consents unitAI
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13/11/2025BrianWhittleSouth ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41852To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41171 by Gillian Martin on 27 October 2025, what the estimated cost is for the Energy Consents Unit to process a representation from a member of the public, also broken down by the time taken to do so.Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 November 2025energy consents unit
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11/11/2025JamieGreeneWest ScotlandScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41825To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has conducted into labour shortages in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, and what steps it is taking to reverse depopulation trends in rural South of Scotland communities.Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 19 November 2025depopulation trendslabour shortages
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11/11/2025JamieGreeneWest ScotlandScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41829To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out any analysis relating to the impact of population decline on apprenticeship uptake in the South of Scotland region.Answered by Ben Macpherson on 25 November 2025apprenticeships
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10/11/0225StephenKerrCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41786To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of any loss of tourism income resulting from restricted access at Historic Environment Scotland properties.Answered by Angus Robertson on 18 November 2025tourismHES
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07/11/2025MilesBriggsLothianScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41752To ask the Scottish Government how many buildings with cladding have had remedial works carried out as a result of the Single Building Assessment.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 18 November 2025cladding remediationsingle building assessments
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07/11/2025MilesBriggsLothianScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41751To ask the Scottish Government how many buildings with cladding have had the Single Building Assessment completed.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 November 2025cladding remediationsingle building assessments
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06/11/2025AlexanderStewartMid Scotland and FifeScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41728To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports of a potential £3.5 million budget shortfall at Forth Valley College, concerns regarding the loss of the Alloa Campus, and college budgets reducing by 20% in real terms over the last five years, whether it will provide further details of what it is doing to (a) retain students at the college and (b) maintain skills and secure college facilities across the region.Answered by Ben Macpherson on 20 November 2025skills and training
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06/11/2025WillieRennieNorth East FifeScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41721To ask the Scottish Government whether an updated status was confirmed for all 512 high-rise buildings with known cladding by the end of October 2025, as set out in the Cladding Remediation Programme: Next Phase Plan of Action.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 November 2025cladding remediation
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06/11/2025WillieRennieNorth East FifeScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41722To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its Developer Remediation Contract.
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06/11/2025WillieRennieNorth East FifeScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41723To ask the Scottish Government how many developers signed (a) its previous "in principle" agreement regarding the removal of unsafe cladding and (b) the Developer Remediation Contract by the deadline of 31 October 2025, as set out in the Cladding Remediation Programme: Next Phase Plan of Action.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 24 November 2025cladding remediation
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05/11/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41694To ask the Scottish Government how much money it has directly invested in its place-based investment programme (a) in each year since 2021 and (b) since April 2021, also broken down by how much has been attracted to the programme from private sources.Answered by Kate Forbes on 12 November 2025place-based investmentfunding
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04/11/2025ArianeBurgessHighlands and IslandsScottish Green PartyS6W-41656To ask the Scottish Government how it has considered climate adaptation in the development of the Rural Support Plan.Answered by Jim Fairlie on 18 November 2025Rural Support Planclimate adaptation
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04/11/2025RhodaGrantHighlands and IslandsScottish labourS6W-41652To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41468 by Gillian Martin on 27 October 2025, for what reason the Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS) is being used for an asset to be transferred to the community, and what consideration it has given to setting a rent to be paid, similar to commercial developers.Answered by Gillian Martin on 18 November 2025CATScommunity transfers
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04/11/2025RhodaGrantHighlands and IslandsScottish labourS6W-41651To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-41468 by Gillian Martin on 27 October 2025, what the locations are of the 10 Forestry and Land Scotland onshore wind sites under 50 megawatts that have been identified as pilot sites.Answered by Gillian Martin on 18 November 2025site developmentrenewables
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04/11/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41689To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of (a) local authority and (b) registered social landlord homes meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 18 November 2025local authoritiesscottish housing quality standard
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03/11/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish Labour S6W-41641To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that the recently launched Scottish National Building Standards Hub is equipped to provide the expertise of conservation accredited structural engineers, who are on the Conservation Accreditation Register of Engineers (CARE), to local authorities that may require such specialised advice but may not have access to it in-house, including when decisions are being made around dangerous historic buildings and the potential need for demolition works.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 18 November 2025building standardsaccreditation
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41634To ask the Scottish Government what international best practice it examined in drawing up the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economyinternational best practice
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41631To ask the Scottish Government whether there will be new and dedicated funding provided to support the (a) actions of the proposed Zero Waste Scotland Business Information Hub and (b) activity of enterprise agencies, as outlined in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 14 November 2025circular economyZero Waste Scotland
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41640To ask the Scottish Government whether its plans to align with EU textiles policy, as discussed in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland, includes support for adopting similar restrictions on the export of textile waste.Answered by Gillian Martin on 14 November 2025circular economyTextile
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41632To ask the Scottish Government how it will define and measure “embedding circularity” in public sector procurement processes, as outlined in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economy
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41633To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to set (a) a timeline and (b) mandatory quotas for circular economy procurement by public bodies.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economytimeline
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41636To ask the Scottish Government how apprenticeships and vocational qualifications will be updated to include circular skills, as discussed in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economycircular skills
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41630To ask the Scottish Government how Zero Waste Scotland will coordinate with enterprise agencies to avoid duplicating support for circular economy practices, as outlined in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economy
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03/11/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41635To ask the Scottish Government how it defines “circular skills”, and what specific competencies will be prioritised in the education and skills reform programme, as discussed in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.Answered by Gillian Martin on 17 November 2025circular economycircular skills
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31/10/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41618To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to communities to help them develop local place plans.Answered by Ivan McKee on 7 November 2025local place planscommunity development
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31/10/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41620To ask the Scottish Government whether it will adhere to the seven-year timescale set out in the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 to review local place plans, and report its findings to the Parliament.Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 November 2025local place plans
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30/10/2025StephenKerrCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41602To ask the Scottish Government whether it will respond to the reported warning by Colleges Scotland that the sector has reached “the limit of what doing more with less can achieve”.Answered by Ben Macpherson on 14 November 2025training and skillscolleges
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27/10/2025BeatriceWishartShetland IslandsScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41590To ask the Scottish Government which of the (a) 42 formal flood protection schemes and (b) flood engineering works' areas have been completed, broken down by the (i) number of properties protected and (ii) completion date, and what the (A) initial forecast and (B) final cost was of each.Answered by Gillian Martin on 11 November 2025flood defence schemesdata
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27/10/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41519To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the annual report of the Scottish Housing Regulator, which has stated that three local authorities are impacted by a systemic failure of their homelessness services, and a further eight are at heightened risk of such failure.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 12 November 2025homelessness
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27/10/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-41508To ask the Scottish Government what the permitted development rights are of (a) local authorities and (b) registered social landlords in relation to social house-building, and what its position is on the greater use of these powers.Answered by Ivan McKee on 31 October 2025Permitted Development Rightssocial housing
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23/11/2025AlexCole-HamiltonEdinburgh WesternScottish Liberal DemocratsS6W-41455To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support empty home initiatives that can contribute to addressing the challenges of the housing market as well as support the local communities affected.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 November 2025empty homes
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21/10/2025CarolMochanSouth ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41427To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage an uptake in construction apprenticeships, including in South Scotland. Answered by Ben Macpherson on 18 November 2025Construction skillsmodern apprenticeships
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20/10/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-41405To ask the Scottish Government of the 21 transfers of engagements of housing associations approved and actioned across Scotland since 2010, which of those involved (a) the transfer of a community-based housing association (CBHA) to a neighbouring CBHA, thereby retaining local accountability and (b) the transfer of a CBHA to a larger registered social landlord.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 November 2025Community Based Housing Associations
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20/10/2025PaulSweeneyGlasgowScottish LabourS6W-41415To ask the Scottish Government whether it will instruct Glasgow City Council and all of the city’s registered social landlords to establish a common housing register, either on a single city wide or on a district basis.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 November 2025Housing Register
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16/10/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41394To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated in each of the last five years to support construction skills training, broken down by how much of this has (a) been directed through (i) colleges and (ii) training providers, and (b) reached small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the construction sector, and what mechanisms are in place to ensure that SMEs can directly access such funding for workforce development.Answered by Ben Macpherson on 29 October 2025skills training
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16/10/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41393To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with NHS boards regarding the use of combustible façade material on hospital buildings, in light of the remediation efforts currently underway at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.Answered by Neil Gray on 3 November 2025Cladding remediationNHS estate
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16/10/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41392To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of the types of combustible façade material used on the estimated 1,020 to 1,200 residential buildings with a height of 11 to 18m that have been identified as possibly requiring remedial work, in light of it having provided a breakdown of the type of work required, namely remediation, partial remediation or mitigation.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 13 November 2025Cladding remediation
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16/10/2025MarkGriffinCentral ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41390To ask the Scottish Government whether all hospitals, including those with a storey at a height above and below the 11m threshold, have been assessed to ascertain whether combustible façade material is present in their external walls, and if so, how many are affected.Answered by Neil Gray on 3 November 2025Cladding remediationNHS estate
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16/10/2025MeganGallacherCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41387To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, what its position is on whether it is appropriate for the BS 8414 cladding system test to reportedly still form part of Scotland’s building standards technical handbooks for demonstrating compliance for external wall cladding systems.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 13 November 2025Cladding remediationBuilding standards
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16/10/2025MeganGallacherCentral ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41388To ask the Scottish Government what discussion it, or any of its agencies, including the Building Standards Division, has had with local authorities across Scotland regarding the use of the BS 8414 cladding system test, to ensure notification is given if the test is used to demonstrate compliance for external wall cladding systems.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 November 2025Cladding remediationBuilding standards
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14/10/2025TimEagleHighlands and IslandsScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41341To ask the Scottish Government how many vacant (a) crofts and (b) farms there were in each local authority area on 30 September in each year since 2021.Answered by Jim Fairlie on 29 October 2025datacrofts
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13/10/2025PatrickHarvieGlasgowScottish Green PartyS6W-41281To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-39821 by Mairi McAllan on 1 September 2025, should the Scottish Law Commission conclude that compulsory owners’ associations can be established in law, what its position is on whether the current obligation on owners to insure under section 18 of the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 should be updated to instead place the duty on owners’ associations to provide insurance under a single common policy.Answered by Mairi McAllan on 7 November 2025SLCcompulsory owners associations
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13/10/2025MauriceGoldenNorth East ScotlandScottish Conservative and Unionist PartyS6W-41284To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to ensure that Scotland's pathway networks are accessible and safe.Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 October 2025pathway networks
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10/10/2025MartinWhitfieldSouth ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41224To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities currently have no ring-fenced capital budget for playpark maintenance or renewal.Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 6 November 2025landscape safetymaintenance and repair
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10/10/2025MartinWhitfieldSouth ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41223To ask the Scottish Government how many playparks have been closed due to safety concerns in each of the last five years.Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 6 November 2025landscape safety
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10/10/2025MartinWhitfieldSouth ScotlandScottish LabourS6W-41207To ask the Scottish Government how many nursery buildings currently contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), and how many children are impacted.Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 6 November 2025RAACnursery buildings