- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of private sector housing developments of below 10 units with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form and how many new affordable housing units these identified for each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12611 on 13 May 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of private sector housing developments of 50 units and above with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form and how many new affordable housing units these identified for each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12611 on 13 May 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all private sector housing developments with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form.
Answer
The Scottish Government recently published information on the number of housing developments granted planning consent, where a private developer has agreed to make a contribution towards affordable housing. This official statistics publication (covering the 2005-07 financial years) is available on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/25153806/0.
Statistics on the total number of private sector housing developments granted planning consent are not held centrally. Hence the Scottish Government does not hold information on private contributions in the form requested.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 May 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 13 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of private sector housing developments of 10 to 19 units with planning consents in the period from 2005 to 2007 included affordable housing agreements in some form and how many new affordable housing units these identified for each local authority.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-12611 on 13 May 2008. 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/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 9 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of funding was allocated for the Mortgage to Rent scheme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06.
Answer
The Mortgage to Rent scheme is demand-led. The level of funding allocated to the scheme in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05 and (c) 2005-06 was as follows:
| Financial Year | Level of Funding (£) |
| 2003-04 | 3.25 million |
| 2004-05 | 4.00 million |
| 2005-06 | 7.00 million |
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people the Mortgage to Rent scheme had assisted in each year since 2003.
Answer
The Mortgage to Rent scheme is demand led. The number of households that the scheme assisted in each financial year since 2003 is as follows:
| Financial Year | Number of Households |
| 2003-04 | 46 |
| 2004-05 | 91 |
| 2005-06 | 147 |
| 2006-07 | 173 |
| 2007-08 | 161 |
| Total | 618 |
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average value of grant towards the purchase of houses under the Mortgage to Rent scheme has been in each year since 2003.
Answer
The Mortgage to Rent scheme is demand led. The average value of grant towards the purchase of houses under the scheme in each financial year since 2003 is as follows:
| Financial Year | Average Value of Grant (£) |
| 2003-04 | 26,042.60 |
| 2004-05 | 33,244.91 |
| 2005-06 | 43,257.64 |
| 2006-07 | 48,596.66 |
| 2007-08 | 57,804.53 |
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Security Industry Authority intends to review its procedures in order to ensure that they are sufficiently robust to deal with security firms whose owners have alleged criminal connections.
Answer
It is a matter for the Security Industry Authority to ensure that they have robust operating procedures in place to ensure they meet their statutory obligations to regulate the private security industry.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to update the national performance standards for housing to include a standard on the participation of local authorities and registered social landlords in Wider Role and social enterprise activities.
Answer
National Performance Standards for social landlords, jointly agreed by the regulator, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations currently contain a guiding standard on sustainability for all social landlords as well as wider role activity standards that apply only to Registered Social Landlords. These were updated in November 2006 following consultation with the sector. We do not intend to carry out a further review or to amend the standard.
- Asked by: Johann Lamont, MSP for Glasgow Pollok, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 8 May 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide guidance to local authorities and community planning partnerships on the use of community regeneration funding to support registered social landlords in social enterprise activities.
Answer
Strategic guidance on the new Fairer Scotland Fund, which has replaced a number of previous community regeneration programmes and their individual monitoring regimes, was provided to Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) in February. Local funding decisions are a matter for individual CPPs.
