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Question reference: S3W-29993

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 13 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been available to the care and repair scheme over the last five years, broken down by local authority.

The funding available to local authorities between 2005-06 and 2009-10 for running costs for care and repair services is set out in the following table, rounded to the nearest thousand pounds.

In financial years 2005-06, 2006-07 and 2007-08, funding for care and repair was separately identified and ring fenced. Local authorities were allowed to add to these allocations from Private Sector Housing Grant (PSHG) to fund services.

From 2008-09, the ring fencing was removed and an equivalent amount added to PSHG, split between local authorities on a pro rata basis, in line with PSHG allocations. This included a specific condition of grant to maintain care and repair services.

Local Authority	Ring-fenced Allocation			Non-Ring-fenced Allocation		Total
	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Scotland	2.335	3.527	2.447	2.335	2.335	12.980
Aberdeen City	0.083	0.166	0.000	0.097	0.097	0.442
Aberdeenshire	0.105	0.105	0.105	0.042	0.046	0.403
Angus	0.088	0.176	0.029	0.036	0.037	0.366
Argyll and Bute	0.110	0.136	0.099	0.110	0.106	0.561
Clackmannanshire	0.057	0.102	0.061	0.019	0.018	0.257
Dumfries and Galloway	0.125	0.125	0.125	0.076	0.075	0.526
Dundee City	0.000	0.000	0.032	0.076	0.075	0.183
East Ayrshire	0.043	0.086	0.050	0.033	0.034	0.246
East Dunbartonshire	0.048	0.096	0.048	0.027	0.029	0.248
East Lothian	0.093	0.093	0.182	0.047	0.046	0.461
East Renfrewshire	0.030	0.030	0.120	0.019	0.021	0.220
Edinburgh, City of	0.128	0.128	0.128	0.243	0.249	0.875
Eilean Siar	0.147	0.147	0.147	0.115	0.109	0.666
Falkirk	0.000	0.000	0.050	0.035	0.035	0.120
Fife	0.081	0.081	0.096	0.049	0.056	0.364
Glasgow City	0.134	0.269	0.000	0.370	0.368	1.140
Highland	0.226	0.453	0.150	0.151	0.147	1.127
Inverclyde	0.064	0.064	0.137	0.042	0.041	0.348
Midlothian	0.000	0.000	0.025	0.018	0.018	0.061
Moray	0.027	0.027	0.027	0.044	0.043	0.167
North Ayrshire	0.096	0.191	0.020	0.042	0.042	0.392
North Lanarkshire	0.126	0.229	0.126	0.089	0.091	0.661
Orkney Islands	0.051	0.052	0.051	0.039	0.037	0.231
Perth and Kinross	0.099	0.198	0.039	0.061	0.061	0.458
Renfrewshire	0.038	0.052	0.034	0.059	0.061	0.244
Scottish Borders	0.033	0.067	0.000	0.044	0.043	0.188
Shetland Islands	0.000	0.000	0.050	0.034	0.032	0.116
South Ayrshire	0.055	0.110	0.055	0.040	0.041	0.302
South Lanarkshire	0.183	0.218	0.283	0.166	0.165	1.015
Stirling	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.041	0.039	0.080
West Dunbartonshire	0.000	0.000	0.114	0.028	0.028	0.170
West Lothian	0.064	0.127	0.064	0.042	0.042	0.339

Question reference: S3W-29984

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the housing debt is of each local authority.

Information on the level of housing debt in each local authority is published annually in the Local Authority Housing Income and Expenditure official statistics publication. Data up to 31 March 2009 and projected levels as at 31 March 2010 were published online on 24 September 2009 and are available at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Housing-Regeneration/HSfS/HRA2008-09.

The excel table entitled Outstanding Debt shows the total capital debt on the council''s housing revenue account as at 31 March each year for those authorities that still retain housing stock. The table also shows a debt per house figure based on the number of houses owned by that authority.

Question reference: S3W-29662

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Jim Mather on 11 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will make an announcement regarding plans for European funding to be used for energy efficient retrofit.

Question reference: S3W-29861

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive over what period European Investment Bank funding has been provided to housing associations.

Question reference: S3W-29860

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive which housing associations have accessed funds from the European Investment Bank and how much each received.

Housing associations in Scotland have been allocated a total of £70 million, 20% of the total being made available across the UK by the European Investment Bank through The Housing Finance Corporation. The allocations to individual associations are given in the following table. However, the housing associations involved are still negotiating loan agreements with The Housing Finance Corporation and consequently none has yet accessed the funds.

	£ million
Dunedin Canmore	10.0
Hanover (Scotland)	5.0
Home in Scotland (Home Group)	20.0
North Glasgow	8.0
Castle Rock (Places for People)	5.5
Prospect Community	6.5
Sanctuary	10.0
Thenew	5.0
Total	70.0

Question reference: S3W-29862

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 11 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive at what interest rate housing associations have obtained funding from the European Investment Bank.

Question reference: S3W-30394

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2010
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to issue an analysis of the returns from local authorities on their progress in reaching interim homelessness targets.

An analysis of the returns from local authorities in reaching interim homelessness targets was provided in the statistics bulletin published by the Scottish Government on 4 September 2009. This analysis and continuing engagement with local authorities is informing the work of the joint Scottish Government/COSLA 2012 steering group, established in October last year to help maintain progress towards targets, which will meet for the fourth time in February 2010.

Question reference: S3W-29887

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 6 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what means it has put in place to evaluate the landlord registration scheme.

Question reference: S3W-29886

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 6 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many landlords were involuntarily removed from the the landlord register in 2008-09, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S3W-29885

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 6 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive how many private landlords were refused registration in 2008-09, broken down by local authority.

Details are as follows:

Local Authority	Number of Applications Refused in 2008-09
Clackmannanshire	1
East Ayrshire	1
East Renfrewshire	1
Glasgow City	1
North Ayrshire	2
Orkney	3
Renfrewshire	1
West Lothian	1