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Over twenty stakeholders were invited to participate in these workshops representing a balance of interests and expertise covering housing, fuel poverty, environment, consumers, industry, legal, landlords, tenants and rural issues. S6W-14304
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2023
In the case of the SFHA, though, all of the support they provide, £6.6m this financial year, is directed towards social housing tenants of member RSLs. We regularly monitor the support provided by our delivery partners; however we seek to avoid excessive demands for data gathering in order to ensure the FIF can be distributed with a level of partner discre...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 October 2021
We have met with a range of private rented sector representatives, including those representing tenants and landlords, and will continue to do so as we progress work on implementing an effective national system of rent controls, including those representing the North Ayrshire and Inverclyde areas.
We support social landlords and their tenants to benefit from energy efficiency and heating improvements through our social housing net zero heat fund.
The increase in uptake of bowel screening and in the proportion of returned bowel screening kits testing positive has placed some additional pressures on colonoscopy departments.
Has anybody seriously explored whether there might be circumstances under which, despite what is in the order, the tenant’s rights to the land might be stronger in ECHR terms but perhaps not so on the paperwork?
That is giving rise to concerns for all those who are affected in all parts of the country, but particularly in places such as Orkney, which rely on mobile screening units visiting once every three years.
Rightly or wrongly – and I do not dispute that here – a heavily redacted EIR response showed that it was concluded that ‘a site visit from APHA is not required.’ Matters did not improve.