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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: S3W-29894

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29298 by Alex Neil on 9 December 2009, which 18 local authorities indicated a willingness to look at the housing trust model in more detail.

Question reference: S3W-29896

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when National Housing Trust – summary of proposals and Increasing Affordable Housing Supply from Limited Public Resources – The Proposed National Housing Trust Initiative were lodged with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) and whether these papers will be made available online.

Question reference: S3W-29893

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29298 by Alex Neil on 9 December 2009, what criteria were used to identify the 26 local authorities initially approached regarding the development of a national housing trust.

Question reference: S3W-29895

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 7 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-29298 by Alex Neil on 9 December 2009, whether it will outline the reasons given by the eight local authorities that did not offer to look at the housing trust model in more detail.

Question reference: S3O-09001

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with local authorities to establish what artworks of potential national significance are held in their archives but not currently on display.

Question reference: S3W-29670

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive whether the responses to Transport Scotland’s consultation on station car parking policy will be published.

Question reference: S3W-29671

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects Transport Scotland to announce the outcome of its consultation on station car parking policy.

Question reference: S3W-29118

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 10 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action will be taken to promote shared-campus schools as part of its school building strategy.

The new school estate strategy, Building Better Schools: Investing in Scotland''s Future, sets out a clear vision for the school estate in Scotland which signals the high value we place on learning; which people and communities can enjoy using and can be proud; which are well designed, maintained and managed, and which encourage continuous engagement with learning.

Where shared-campus schools are the most appropriate option for a local learning community, Building Better Schools, as is always the case for the most appropriate option, supportive and provides the framework for decisions around that option to be taken.

Question reference: S3W-29298

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 9 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions regarding its proposals for a Scottish housing trust it has had with COSLA.

The Scottish Government has had several meetings with COSLA since May 2009 to discuss innovative ways of boosting housing supply, including the potential for a housing trust model to assist some councils in meeting housing needs. Officials held initial discussions with COSLA officers in May and June, at which it was agreed that the concept of a housing trust model was worth exploring further to clarify its feasibility and potential.

The Scottish Government asked the Scottish Futures Trust in June to examine the case for a national housing trust and, as part of this exercise, 26 local authorities were approached to seek their initial views and potential levels of interest in the model. The initial feedback from the work of the Scottish Futures Trust suggested that 18 of these local authorities would be interested in looking at the housing trust model in more detail.

Following completion of the exploratory work carried out by the Scottish Futures Trust, further discussions were held between the Scottish Government and COSLA in September and October. It was agreed that COSLA would seek feedback from councils and arrange consideration of the proposal at meetings in November of the relevant COSLA executive groups and COSLA leaders.

To inform COSLA''s consideration of the proposal, the Scottish Government provided COSLA with a summary of the housing trust model together with a background paper prepared by the Scottish Futures Trust to give councils more details, and the Scottish Government also answered a number of queries fed back from councils. Copies of these papers entitled National Housing Trust “ summary of proposals and Increasing Affordable Housing Supply from Limited Public Resources “ The Proposed National Housing Trust Initiative, are available in the Scottish Parliament''s Information Centre (Bib. numbers 49829 and 49830).

The Scottish Government is continuing to work closely with COSLA to identify whether any local authorities would wish to participate in a national housing trust initiative and, if so, to undertake further work with COSLA and interested local authorities to develop detailed proposals.

Question reference: S3W-29301

Asked by: Cathy Jamieson, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 9 December 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation it has had with individual local authorities regarding its proposals for a Scottish housing trust.