This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.
Everyone will lose the plot, given the amount of new information that will come out. People will not know whether the money is new money, replacement money or money that has been relabelled.
Cumbernauld is the most extreme example as 70 per cent of homes in some tower blocks are owner-occupied. In the second round of the new housing partnership, resources were provided to authorities to deal with that problem.In the latest round of new housing partnerships the Government made it clear that new housing partnership money could not be used to provide grants to owners.
We originally agreed to take no further action on this petition, and it is suggested that we note the latest letter from the Executive and pass a copy of it to the petitioners for their information.
Paul Letley was right when he said that one appraises that fund relative to life-cycle costing, which indicates whether one can re-roof the property in five years, fit new windows in 10 years and install new bathrooms in 15 years.