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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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the turnaround time for each application to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber) for Evictions and Civil Proceedings from application to hearing date.
To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors the performance of property factors.
To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to private landlords who have a non-paying tenant while awaiting a hearing by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber).
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on retaining the BS 8414 large-scale test as a route to compliance for systems involving combustible materials on high-rise building façades.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on changing building standards to permit the use of non-combustible materials only on high-rise building façades.
To ask the Scottish Government whether, in the interests of public safety, it has funded the replacement of the combustible insulation installed at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
To ask the Scottish Government how many planning decisions in each local authority that went against a local development plan in which it was decided to (a) approve and (b) reject a plan were referred to it in (i) 2000, (ii) 2001, (iii) 2002, (iv) 2003, (v) 2004, (vi) 2005 and (vii) 2006, broken down by type of plan, and how many were overturned following referral.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12806 by Humza Yousaf on 19 December 2017, whether it plans to provide a train station in Plains, North Lanarkshire.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14295 by Kevin Stewart on 8 February 2018, when the monitoring and evaluation of the pilot scheme for the equity loan scheme will be published; whether current data is available and, if so, where, and, on the assumption that the answer is referring to the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes (HEEPS) equity loan pilot, which stipulates that 55% of the loan must be for energy efficiency improvements, what considerations have been given to pilot or provide lending that covers essential maintenance repairs that do not include an energy efficiency element.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13289 by Kevin Stewart on 21 December 2017, when the refreshed housing strategy for older people will be published.