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To ask the Scottish Executive whether housing association tenants will still be liable for any rent arrears incurred during existing tenancy agreements when the new Scottish Secure Tenancy is implemented.
Relevant costs might be allocated to local authority general expenditure and attract revenue support grant or, in the case of local authority tenants, to the Housing Revenue Account.
The Executive's Guidance for Local Authorities on Housing Transfer to Community Ownership makes it clear what information should be made available to tenants during the statutory consultation process leading up to any ballot on a transfer proposal.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities currently require tenants who are exercising their right to buy to take out a particular building insurance policy as a condition of buying their home and which of these authorities receive commissions from the insurance premiums generated.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 December 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will report on its consultation on right to buy by housing association tenants and in particular on any identified specific problems arising in Partick.
The Scottish NationalBlood Transfusion Service has identified 139 patients, through it’s lookback processand subsequent investigations, who received blood containing the hepatitis C virusup to the introduction of screening in 1991. S2W-25586