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.
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities have taken advantage of the opportunity under the Community Empowerment Act 2015 to reduce business rates.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to assist local authorities in overcoming forecasted funding gaps.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of recent research carried out by Pye Consulting on its behalf in its report, Evaluation of the performance of local authorities in their role as building standards verifiers, which shows large variances in the overall performance of local authorities in allocating building warrants.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support local authorities with the reported increase in the volume of building warrant applications that they are receiving.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve the overall timeliness performance of local authorities in granting building warrants.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the cost to local authorities of hiring external experts to plug in-house gaps in building standards services.
To ask the Scottish Government how much local authorities have invested in technology specifically in advance of the e-building standards portal roll out.
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the move toward e-building standards by local authorities and how this has impacted the delivery of building standards warrants.
To ask the Scottish Government was assessment it has made of budget pressures impacting building standards services.
To ask the Scottish Government how it aims to reduce inconsistencies across local authorities in the delivery of building standards verification.