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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.

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Question reference: S1W-14429

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive from which budgets Scottish Homes' #40 million contribution to the central heating programme will be allocated.

Question reference: S1W-14424

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems it estimates will have to be ordered in order to meet installation needs under its central heating programme, broken down for each of the next five years.

Question reference: S1W-14428

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many qualified central heating engineers there currently are for each type of central heating system and what the current annual number of installations of each type is.

Question reference: S1W-14431

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the central heating units which will be installed under its central heating programme have yet been ordered; if so, how many, from whom and what has been the total cost of these units to date.

Question reference: S1W-14425

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating system units are currently available for installation as part of its central heating programme.

Question reference: S1W-14427

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 10 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are expected to qualify as central heating engineers in each of the next five years.

Question reference: S1W-16342

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 18 June 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 2 July 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to divert monies allocated to the central heating initiative to other budgets and, if so, to which budgets.

Question reference: S1W-14426

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 March 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 27 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating engineers will be required to install the central heating units under its central heating programme.

Question reference: S1W-15911

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 May 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 5 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to set up a forum for people or organisations involved with or affected by Houses in Multiple Occupancy licensing to facilitate discussion about common practices and concerns.

We consider that a forum of this sort is unnecessary, since local authorities have already established an HMO Benchmarking Group in which they can discuss problems and best practice relating to mandatory licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). Executive officials and the voluntary sector have established contacts with this group.The licensing structures set up by local authorities were informed by the guidance on the mandatory licensing of HMOs published by the Executive in September 2000. This guidance, which is available in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. no. 13706), was based partly on examples of best practice and it includes Benchmark Standards for safe, good quality accommodation, as well as information on tenancy management standards. However, under the provisions of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, it is the responsibility of each local authority to set reasonable licensing conditions.Under the 1982 Act it is also the responsibility of each local authority to set licensing fees for its area at a level sufficient to meet the expenses of the local authority in exercising its licensing functions under the Act. Details of fee levels are among the information currently being obtained from local authorities on the revised HMO licensing monitoring return.We have no substantive evidence that landlords are selling properties or evading licensing because of the level of fees. Information on any such trends, and on the impact of licence fees on landlords and tenants, will be sought in the course of a review of the first year of mandatory licensing of HMOs, which the Executive will be carrying out later this year.

Question reference: S1W-15909

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 May 2001
Current Status: Answered by Jackie Baillie on 5 June 2001

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to develop national standards or good practice guidelines for local authorities to ensure that Houses in Multiple Occupancy licensing is carried out to a consistently high standard across Scotland.