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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-06958

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much it estimates that it will cost to ensure that all fire station buildings are in a good standard of repair.

Question reference: S6W-06951

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) wholetime, (b) retained and (c) control firefighters have been employed by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in each year since it was created.

Recruitment of firefighters, whether whole-time, retained or control is a matter for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service therefore figures on recruitment are not held centrally.

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) came into being as a national service on 1 April 2013. In its first year of operation (2013/14) employment statistics were collated by the Scottish Government and at 31 March 2014 SFRS had, by headcount, 4,001 whole-time, 2,940 Retained, 223 control, and 961 support employees and 359 volunteers. For reporting year 2014/15 and onwards, SFRS has been responsible for producing these statistics and employment figures are published annually on the SFRS website www.firescotland.gov.uk as part of its Organisational Statistics.

Prior to 2013-14 fire and rescue services were provided by the 8 regional fire and rescue services which formed part of local government. Statistics on the number of employees in these services are not held centrally.

Question reference: S6W-06950

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what additional budget has been allocated to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service for the coming years.

Question reference: S6W-06954

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the recruitment of (a) permanent full-time uniformed and (b) retained staff in the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.

Question reference: S6W-06960

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of any reduced crewing levels on fire appliances responding to fires.

Question reference: S6W-06957

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the results of any assessment it has carried out on the physical condition of the country’s fire stations.

Question reference: S6W-06956

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when the last condition survey was carried out on all fire stations in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-06971

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring it conducts of the characteristics of households and tenancy arrangements in the operational build-to-rent sector, and the affordability of, and tenancies offered in, proposed developments.

The Scottish Government does not conduct monitoring of the characteristics of households and tenancy arrangements in the build to rent sector.

Build to Rent is recognised as a mainstream housing delivery mechanism and can complement existing housing models.

Build to Rent can be characterised by:

Single institutional ownership and professional on-site management of the entire development;

Individual units are self-contained and separately let;
Resident access to shared, communal facilities and on-site amenities integrated as part of the development.

Question reference: S6W-06825

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many housing associations have yet to meet the new fire and smoke alarm standard.

Social Landlords will be submitting their Annual Return on the Social Housing Charter to the Scottish Housing Regulator, which will set out their compliance with all statutory requirements. Data on landlords stock meeting the new interlinked fire alarm standard will be included in the annual returns at the end of March and will be published by the Scottish Housing Regulator in Autumn. However, informal estimates from SFHA suggest that around 90% of their members’ stock is already compliant with the new legislation and the remaining stock will be completed in due course.

Question reference: S6W-06912

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 15 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many older people who are in relative or absolute poverty it estimates have applied for schemes such as Warmer Homes Scotland and similar government schemes in order to make it through this winter and afford basic needs such as heating and food.

Eligibility for Warmer Homes Scotland (WHS) does not operate on an “application” basis, but on proxies which are used as an indication of the likelihood of the household living in or being at risk of fuel poverty.

Eligible callers to Home Energy Scotland, looking for advice or help are referred to WHS. Both the householder and the property must meet the qualifying criteria to receive assistance from Warmer Homes Scotland.

A total of 1,467 referrals to WHS during the period 1 November 2021 and 28 February 2022 were made from those who were 60 years and above.

Monitoring information for other winter support schemes will become available at the end of the current financial year and we intend to publish that information once available.