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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-19339

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the statement of the Minister for Communities and Sport on 18 December 2008 (Official Report c. 13569), whether it will confirm that Aberdeen will have a budget allocation of £40.6 million for affordable housing during the current parliamentary session and whether it will provide a breakdown of how the funding will be allocated between 2008 and 2011.

Further to my statement in the Scottish Parliament on 18 December 2008, (Official Report c. 13569) I can confirm that the amount of affordable housing budget spent in Aberdeen city in 2007-08 was £6.7 million and it is anticipated that £3.922 million will be spent in 2008-09. It is expected that a further £30 million will be spent in the city over 2009-10 and 2010-11 subject to the detailed programming requirements of the Devanha initiative.

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-08/sor1218-02.htm#Col13568.

Question reference: S3W-19337

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-3354 by Stewart Maxwell on 29 August 2007, whether it will confirm that the housing allocation for Aberdeen for 2003 to 2007 was £34.883 million.

The figures I provided in my previous answer to question S3W-3354 were for the actual amount of grant paid to Registered Social Landlords in each local authority area for 2003-04 to 2006-07. I can confirm that the grant paid to Registered Social Landlords in Aberdeen City for this period was £34.883 million.

The overall affordable housing grant in Aberdeen City over the same period was £37.498 million.

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Question reference: S3W-19109

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 19 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the £25 million funding package for council housing, whether it will list the councils that have made applications for funding, also showing for each the number of houses applied for and the average level of subsidy per house.

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Council	Number of Houses Applied For	Subsidy Per House Requested
Aberdeen City	92	£25,000
Aberdeenshire	34	£25,000
Angus	2	£24,900
City of Edinburgh	398	£25,000
Dundee City	32	£22,000
East Ayrshire	50	£25,000
East Lothian	135	£25,000
Falkirk	124	£25,000
Fife	95	£25,000
Midlothian	495	£25,000
Moray	80	£25,000
North Ayrshire	23	£23,000
North Lanarkshire	185	£25,000
Orkney	50	£10,000
Perth and Kinross	26	£25,000
Shetland Islands	10	£25,000
South Lanarkshire	120	£25,000
Stirling	83	£25,000
West Lothian	700	£25,000

Source: Information provided by councils as part of their applications for a share of the £25 million to encourage council house building.

Question reference: S3W-19338

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 19 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-13606 by Stewart Maxwell on 30 May 2008, whether the provisional housing allocation of £3.922 million for Aberdeen in 2008-09 has changed.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-13606 on 30 May 2008. I can confirm that the Affordable Housing Investment Programme allocation for Aberdeen City in 2008-09 is still £3.922 million.

Question reference: S3O-05494

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2009
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 15 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what it is doing to support housing associations.

Question reference: S3W-19108

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 15 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the bid by Falkirk Council for funding from the £25 million package for council housing, what the average cost per house will be to the council in addition to the subsidy.

Question reference: S3W-18753

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have been successful in converting their mortgage to rent in each month in 2008-09 for which information is available.

The number of Mortgage to Rent applications for which information is available, settled in 2008-09 is contained in the following table:

Month	Number of Settled Cases
April	10
May	13
June	15
July	7
August	20
September	29
October	23
November	26
December	21
Total	164

Question reference: S3W-18752

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have applied to the Mortgage to Rent scheme in each month in 2008-09 for which information is available.

The number of applications to the Mortgage to Rent scheme in each month for which information is available in 2008-09 is contained in the following table:

Month	Number of Applications Received
April	48
May	34
June	47
July	48
August	40
September	48
October	58
November	53
December	31
Total	407

Question reference: S3W-19240

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many householders were supported by the Mortgage to Rent scheme from January to June 2008.

Question reference: S3W-18741

Asked by: Mary Mulligan, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2008
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 January 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the £18 million brought forward under the accelerated housing programme, what the average amount paid per site has been.

From the two tranches of projects announced to date as part of the accelerated Affordable Housing Investment Programme, amounting to £18 million, £8.036 million is to be directed at acquisition of sites.

This will fund 16 sites at an average purchase price of £0.502 million per site. These sites will have the capacity for around 475 new homes. This equates therefore to £0.017 million purchase price per home.