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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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Question reference: S6W-08961

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 21 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to (a) review legislation that allows property factor companies to own 50% or more of residential buildings and (b) introduce legislation to ensure that residents retain decision-making rights for their homes rather than property factor companies.

The Scottish Government has no plans to introduce legislation to restrict a property factor business’ ability to own 50% or more of residential buildings.

Legislation to restrict ownership of property to particular categories of business or individual would raise fundamental property right issues.

There are also no plans for the Scottish Government to introduce legislation to ensure that homeowners retain decision-making rights rather than property factor companies.

In tenements, owners have the right to vote to make decisions on the commonly owned areas of their property regardless of whether they own one property or numerous properties. Procedures on voting are laid down in title deeds or, where these are unclear, unworkable or non-existent, then the default provisions of the Tenement Management Scheme (TMS) under schedule 1 of the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 will be followed. Under the TMS a majority is required for undertaking repairs and maintenance. A unanimous decision from owners is required for undertaking improvements unless reasonably incidental to the maintenance.

Question reference: S6W-08840

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 14 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether the spending mechanism used for determining the provision of social care will include a re-evaluation of the so-called eligibility of need threshold, which can reportedly cause regional inequality between local authority areas.

The Scottish Government wants to ensure the quality, fairness and consistency of social care support provision regardless of where people live in Scotland.

Eligibility criteria can be a barrier to accessing social care support. We want the focus to be on people getting the support they need when they need it, not on eligibility. The Scottish Government is committed to overhauling the current mechanism of eligibility criteria. We set out proposals for doing this in the National Care Service consultation and will be working with partners and stakeholders to co-design the development of alternative approaches.

Question reference: S6O-01197

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve safety at train stations.

Question reference: S6W-08751

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to introducing the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism for those working in health and social care in Scotland.

Action 12 of our Learning/Intellectual Disability and Autism: Towards Transformation Plan committed to explore the establishment of mandatory autism and learning/intellectual disability training for all NHS staff. We will consider how this applies across multi-disciplinary settings and use the evaluation findings from the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training pilot to inform our approach to learning disability and autism training in Scotland.

The Scottish Government has also commissioned NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to develop the NES autism training framework as a tool for services and learners, alongside funding a Learning Disability Team at NES to improve the knowledge and skills of the health and social care workforce.

Question reference: S6W-08614

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07156 by Humza Yousaf on 28 March 2022, whether it will provide a further update on advice provided to NHS boards to enable the routine prescribing of sapropterin for people with phenylketonuria (PKU).

Question reference: S6O-01172

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to review and address any university funding gap, in light of reports of increasing numbers of international students being offered places, compared with Scottish-domiciled applicants.

Question reference: S6W-08509

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its consultation on statutory guidance on the affordability of school uniforms.

Question reference: S6W-08385

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how its guidance on recording incidents of bullying in schools is being implemented by (a) North Lanarkshire Council and (b) other local authorities.

In 2019, we introduced a uniform approach to recording and monitoring bullying incidents in schools, supported by guidance. All local authorities and schools are expected to be using the new approach.

It is the responsibility of school staff and local authorities to decide how to address bullying in their schools. We expect that all local authorities have an anti-bullying policy that covers all of their schools and each school should develop and implement an anti-bullying policy in line with this. The policy should indicate how incidents will be dealt with and recorded.

Therefore, this information would need to be requested from each local authority directly.

Question reference: S6O-01114

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with North Lanarkshire Council regarding the proposed implementation of a multi-establishment leadership model in schools.

Question reference: S6O-01004

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to help people experiencing fuel poverty as a result of increased energy bills.