- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications were received by the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in 2009-10, broken down by (a) private and (b) community landowners.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33490 on 12 May 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many homes it expects to be built through grants awarded under the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33490 on 12 May 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications to the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme in 2009-10 were successful, broken down by (b) private and (b) community landowners.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33490 on 12 May 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 May 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 12 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was provided through the Rural Homes for Rent grant scheme to build affordable homes in 2009-10.
Answer
No funding was provided through this pilot scheme during 2009-10.
Full details of the pilot scheme, which was launched in 2008-09, have been published on the Scottish Government''s website, including details of the individual projects which are being supporting.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-environment/Housing/investment/grants/ruralhomesforrent.
All applications to the pilot scheme were received during 2008-09, and funding for the successful projects is available during 2010-11 and 2011-12.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 30 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 7 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent in advertising the Landlord Registration Scheme in each year since the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced; and what forms of advertising have been used.
Answer
A total of £5.2 million of grant funding was provided to local authorities between February 2006 and March 2008 to support start-up costs associated with the delivery of the Landlord Registration Scheme. As a part of this overall support package, templates for information leaflets aimed at tenants and landlords were also provided to local authorities.
Information on advertising costs incurred in each year is not held centrally, as each local authority has responsibility for promoting and publicising the scheme. We are aware of various forms of advertising employed by local authorities, including newsletters, leaflets, local authority websites, landlord email groups and landlord forums.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 26 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-30126 by Alex Neil on 15 January 2010, what further progress there has been in establishing a housing investment bank.
Answer
The Scottish Government is continuing to consider the potential role and scope for a housing investment bank and explore options with stakeholders, such as the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and the Chartered Institute of Housing. As part of this the Government has just consulted on possible amendment of the Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (the 20 year rules) (
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/03/04140613/0).
I also refer the member to the answer to question S3W-32440 on 24 March 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
The housing investment bank is one of the ideas to be covered in the wide-ranging debate on how we meet the challenges facing housing over the next five years and beyond.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with which local authorities it is working to develop proposals for a national housing trust.
Answer
The following 13 local authorities have so far confirmed their ongoing interest in the national housing trust. Other local authorities are currently looking at the proposals so may also be interested subject to further discussions.
Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeenshire Council
Angus Council
City of Edinburgh Council
Dundee City Council
East Dunbartonshire Council
East Lothian Council
East Renfrewshire Council
Glasgow City Council
Highland Council
Midlothian Council
Stirling Council
West Lothian Council.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average price paid per house by local authorities was for off-the-shelf purchases from private developers in 2009, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The amount spent by councils on off-the-shelf housing is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding per house, on average, will local authorities receive for the purchase of housing from private developers under the national housing trust scheme.
Answer
Local authorities will not receive funding from the Scottish Government for the purchase of housing from private developers through the national housing trust initiative. Local authorities would be expected to fund 65% of the purchase price of any homes brought into the national housing trust initiative in their area. A Scottish Government guarantee would also be provided to each participating local authority in the event that the sales proceeds were not sufficient for the SPV to repay its loans to the local authority.
- Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 26 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what it anticipates will be the average price per house paid by local authorities for the purchase of properties from private developers under the national housing trust scheme.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-30251 on 21 January 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
Participating local authorities will be expected to fund 65% of the purchase price of homes in their area accepted into the national housing trust initiative.
