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Since the Property Factors (Scotland) Act 2011 came into force, the number of complaints has grown, starting at 26 and reaching a record high of 338 in 2023.
As exhibit 1 on page 16 illustrates quite well, total capital allocations, if we include 2025-26, amount to £1,118 million, relative to committed capital of £785 million.
The Scottish Government is the bad guy. For want of a better expression. It was your expression. SDS is not necessarily the only one, but it had one particular programme that could have been done better, because of the way in which it was managed.
At the moment, we are losing the battle, because retailers are demanding that their producer groups bring in certain welfare or ecological standards, and then they take the credit and the money. There is an urgent need for that to be addressed.
It also provides that the court, taking account of the child’s age and maturity, shall, so far as practicable, give the child an opportunity to express views and shall have regard to any views the child expresses.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assertion that the Vienna convention on successor states has a population de minimis that would exclude Shetland from the rights to the oil in the waters surrounding Shetland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 January 2020
The loss of life was entirely preventable.I am so disappointed in Christine Grahame’s shameless and factually inaccurate speech, which I will take up with her later.It was to the credit of Jeane Freeman that she established the Scottish hospitals inquiry after hearing about the concerns.