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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6W-20290

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 17 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons the national acquisition programme was announced without advice on how purchases from landlords in the private rented sector with tenants in situ would take place.

We are continuing to work through technical and practical points around purchases from landlords in the private rented sector with tenants in situ, and further information will be communicated as soon as possible. Any council or Registered Social Landlord that is currently exploring any such purchase – where this meets a clear strategic purpose and where the tenant is at risk of homelessness – should contact their local More Homes Division area team office.

Question reference: S6W-20295

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 17 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether there are any benchmarks or grant limits attached to the £60 million national acquisition programme.

Question reference: S6W-20378

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to the report of the Task and Finish Group on Temporary Accommodation, how many Scottish Government civil servants will be working on the management and delivery of the proposed national acquisition programme.

As outlined in the answer to S6W-20375 on 16 August 2023, the national acquisition programme is part of the wider Affordable Housing Supply Programme. No civil servants will be assigned solely to work on the national acquisition programme.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

Question reference: S6W-20374

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to the report of the Task and Finish Group on Temporary Accommodation, how it will decide where to target the proposed £60 million of funding for the national acquisition programme.

Question reference: S6W-20375

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to the report of the Task and Finish Group on Temporary Accommodation, what role the Scottish Government will play in co-ordinating the proposed national acquisition programme.

Question reference: S6W-20372

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the key performance indicators (KPIs) will be for the national acquisition programme.

Question reference: S6W-20373

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to the report of the Task and Finish Group on Temporary Accommodation, whether it will provide details of how the proposed national acquisition programme will help it to meet its equalities objectives.

The national acquisition programme is expected to be informed by local authority Local Housing Strategies and Strategic Housing Investment Plans. In preparing their Local Housing Strategies, local authorities should ensure that equality is central to housing and housing service delivery and be underpinned by an Equalities Impact Assessment which should inform the priorities and objectives set out in the Local Housing Strategy, including local housing investment priorities. In preparing their Strategic Housing Investment Plans, local authorities should draw on the finding from their Equalities Impact Assessment when considering the implications flowing from the translation of strategic aims into housing priorities.

Question reference: S6W-20377

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to the report of the Task and Finish Group on Temporary Accommodation, how many households will be directly lifted out of temporary accommodation due to the proposed national acquisition programme.

Question reference: S6W-20289

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 28 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many property acquisitions are expected to be supported through the £60 million allocated to the national acquisition programme, and what modelling has been conducted to support this.

Question reference: S6W-20379

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 16 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether its national acquisition programme will be subject to the Scottish Government’s Principles for Programme and Project Management, and what the programme's relationship will be with the affordable housing supply programme.

As stated in the answer to S6W-20375 on 16 August 2023, the national acquisition programme will be run as part of the Affordable Housing Supply Programme which aligns with the Scottish Government’s Principles for Programme and Project Management.