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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 7 August 2025
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Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Renters’ Rights Bill

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Who would determine that? Will there be any guidelines in place for a sheriff—if such a case goes before a sheriff? How would the determination as to whether there is a legitimate issue be arrived at?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Renters’ Rights Bill

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Thank you. My other question is about the ability of people to use the new protections.

As you well know, minister, when considering the Housing (Scotland) Bill, the committee heard about issues around how tenants can be made aware of and enabled to exercise and enforce their rights. It sounds as though the same issues might confront us in relation to the Renters’ Rights Bill. How do you see us giving support to tenants who may wish to bring issues forward? What support might they be able to receive?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Cladding Remediation Programme

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Is that access available for people now?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Thank you.

On the expertise that you have with which to conduct an inquiry and investigation, do you have the breadth of experience that is needed to look at healthcare? We have talked about that this morning. From where do you draw expertise to conduct a thorough, proper and balanced investigation? We know that public bodies will have all the expertise to hand to answer you, but often the complainer will not have that same depth and breadth of awareness, so how do you make sure the process is balanced? How do you make sure that you have the expertise that you need to conduct an investigation?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

So you need the power to compel, because your experience is that you might not get a response or the quality of response that you hope for.

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Cladding Remediation Programme

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Minister, you mentioned communications and the issues in that regard that have been raised with the committee in the past couple of years. You have given the committee some assurances about the communications improving. Do residents get information from any source other than the Scottish Government? Do the builders who built the buildings that may be subject to this work communicate regularly or otherwise with the residents? When will we see some tangible evidence that residents are getting the information that they seek?

Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee

Renters’ Rights Bill

Meeting date: 10 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Good morning, minister. I have a couple of questions. The Renters’ Rights Bill sets out that there will be a defence for a prospective landlord to show that the conduct is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. Could you give some examples of what that might mean in practice?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

City Region and Regional Growth Deals

Meeting date: 4 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Thanks very much convener. Good morning—[Inaudible.]—that discussion that we had with Murdo Fraser’s questions.

I am interested in how the growth deals have kept pace with changing political objectives at Scottish or UK Government level. I am thinking about things such as the national strategy for economic transformation and national planning framework 4, which as you know has themes at the heart of it such as community and place, local living, 20-minute neighbourhoods, nature and biodiversity and so on. Can you give a flavour of how the growth deals have developed in more recent years to embrace and incorporate those wider changes in both Governments’ policies?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

City Region and Regional Growth Deals

Meeting date: 4 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Can I come back in, convener?

Economy and Fair Work Committee

City Region and Regional Growth Deals

Meeting date: 4 December 2024

Willie Coffey

Okay.