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This year, we are investing £752 million through our affordable housing supply programme, and we will introduce a housing bill to deliver a new deal for tenants. We are also making £108 million available for the delivery of employability services.
There is also funding through the forestry grants scheme, which was increased specifically to ensure that we make it as easy as possible for farmers and crofters to consider planting trees.The attempts to remove some of the barriers for tenant farmers, which we have been considering under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, are also relevant.
Our measures on the protection of tenants’ rights and those to keep rents affordable were to ensure that some of the huge cost of living challenges were not impacting on in situ tenants’ ability to afford their rents.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 September 2017
SPS staff ascertain each individual’s immediate housing circumstances within 72 hours of entry to prison as part of the core screening process, and make appropriate referrals as necessary to address specific issues.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many calls the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has received since 1 March 2020 specifically in relation to home visits or visits to care homes. Home Fire Safety Visits (HFSV) and visits to care homes...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that tenants in the private rented sector are not in danger from carbon monoxide poisoning.
I agree with both members that local authorities could up their game on informing tenants and residents that there is a 12-month option if they want it, as that is maybe not happening in every local authority.
Those regulations will help communities, landowners, tenants and the wider public to know and understand more about decision making and land in Scotland.
Finally, Rachel Sunderland mentioned Camphill communities, which—if you do not mind—I want to raise as a constituency issue, because there is a Camphill community in South Scotland, at Loch Arthur, which I visited on Friday. The people there wanted me to visit so that they could raise the issue that they are concerne...