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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-32300

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 18 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating installations there were between April 2009 and end of February 2010 under the terms of the Energy Assistance Package, excluding those installed under legacy provisions.

Question reference: S3W-32128

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 7,701 units provided by the Affordable Housing Investment Programme in 2009 were off-the-shelf purchases from private developers, broken down by local authority.

The following table provides details of how many of the 7,701 units provided by the Affordable Housing Investment Programme in 2009 that were off-the-shelf purchases from private developers, broken down by local authority.

	Off-the-Shelf Purchases
Scotland	1,856
Aberdeen City	86
Aberdeenshire	18
Angus	9
Argyll and Bute	5
Clackmannanshire	4
Dumfries and Galloway	39
Dundee City	14
East Ayrshire	11
East Dunbartonshire	22
East Lothian	108
East Renfrewshire	12
Edinburgh, City of	455
Eilean Siar	1
Falkirk	20
Fife	60
Glasgow City	222
Highland	114
Inverclyde	15
Midlothian	105
Moray	1
North Ayrshire	15
North Lanarkshire	60
Orkney	5
Perth and Kinross	45
Renfrewshire	11
Scottish Borders, The	20
Shetland	0
South Ayrshire	25
South Lanarkshire	42
Stirling	38
West Dunbartonshire	17
West Lothian	257

Question reference: S3W-32127

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the 7,701 units provided by the Affordable Housing Investment Programme in 2009 were the result of refurbishment, broken down by local authority.

The following table provides details of how many of the 7,701 units provided by the Affordable Housing Investment Programme in 2009 were the result of refurbishment, broken down by local authority area.

	Refurbishments
Scotland	363
Aberdeen City	0
Aberdeenshire	0
Angus	1
Argyll and Bute	1
Clackmannanshire	5
Dumfries and Galloway	15
Dundee City	0
East Ayrshire	5
East Dunbartonshire	0
East Lothian	0
East Renfrewshire	0
Edinburgh, City of	33
Eilean Siar	5
Falkirk	0
Fife	14
Glasgow City	157
Highland	8
Inverclyde	0
Midlothian	0
Moray	28
North Ayrshire	0
North Lanarkshire	8
Orkney	0
Perth and Kinross	11
Renfrewshire	0
Scottish Borders, The	0
Shetland	0
South Ayrshire	0
South Lanarkshire	72
Stirling	0
West Dunbartonshire	0
West Lothian	0

Question reference: S3W-32231

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the membership is of the Housing Support Forum.

The current membership of the Housing Support Forum is:

Robert Aldridge, Chief Executive, Scottish Council for Single Homeless

Yvette Burgess, Director, Housing Support Enabling Unit

Ron Culley, Health and Social Care, Convention of Scottish Local Authorities

Heather Dall, Professional Adviser, Care Commission

Bobby Duffy, Director of Operations, Scottish Association for Mental Health

Tracy Duncan, Housing Policy Administrator, Scottish Government (Secretariat)

Tony Fitzgerald, Principal Contracting Officer, Angus Council

Peter Millar, Chief Executive, Aspire Housing and Personal Development Services

Amanda Miller, Director of Housing Services, Bield Housing Association

Helen Murdoch, Chief Executive, Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association

David Ogilvie, Policy and Strategy Manager, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations

Lynn Paterson, Change Management and Commissioning Manager “ Service Modernisation, Glasgow City Council

Stephen Sandham, Head of Homelessness, Housing Support, Advice and Standards, Scottish Government (Chair)

Austen Smyth, Chief Executive, The Richmond Fellowship

Jackie Walder, Policy Officer, Scottish Government (Secretariat).

Question reference: S3W-32233

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the date is of the next meeting of the Housing Support Forum.

Question reference: S3W-32232

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the date was of the most recent meeting of the Housing Support Forum.

Question reference: S3W-32229

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the date was of the most recent meeting of the short-life working group on housing support data collection.

Question reference: S3W-32230

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 16 March 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the date is of the next meeting of the short-life working group on housing support data collection.

Question reference: S3O-09608

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 February 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is supporting local authorities to achieve environmental targets.

Under the current settlement Scotland''s councils are continuing to receive an increasing share of the total Scottish budget. It is for local authorities to determine how they allocate resources according to local priorities and needs.

The Scottish Government directly supports a wide variety of programmes to help local authorities achieve environmental targets, for example the Carbon Trust Carbon Management Programme, which helps organisations to reduce their carbon emissions, and the Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) which provides expert support, guidance and advice to local authority Sustainable Development officers.

Question reference: S3W-31445

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 February 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 25 February 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average rent levied by each housing association was in 2009.