- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how much of the population and (b) where will be covered by "skeleton restoration" in the event of a black start.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-10260 on 11 August 2017. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what resilience testing there has been of Peterhead; how quickly it can power a black start, and what capacity it can deliver.
Answer
Testing of Peterhead is a matter for Scottish and Southern Energy as the station owner/operator, liaising with National Grid. Peterhead does not have black start capability, as it requires power from the network to begin generating, but could play an important role in fully re-establishing power supplies to the grid.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how long it will take to fully restore power in the event of a black start based on (a) Peterhead remaining available and (b) energising from the English and Welsh transmission system.
Answer
Security of supply and the restoration of electricity supplied in the event of a black start is a reserved matter, accountability for which rests with the Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and is a matter in relation to which the Scottish Government has no formal functions. The responsibility for restoring electricity supplies in the event of a black start lies with National Grid under its Transmission Licence.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what it considers is an acceptable timescale for the full restoration of power in the event of a black start.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-10260 on 11 August 2017. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at .
National Grid’s priority in the event of a black start would be to restore network functions as quickly as possible.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Angela Constance on 11 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how the spending on each fuel poverty programme compared with the budget allocated 2016-17, and how any underspend has been re-allocated.
Answer
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution announced the 2016-17 provisional outturn figures on 22 June. These are currently subject to the final audit process.
The final 2016-17 Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency budget was £119m. An increase of £16m on the draft budget. This reflects additional funding allocated in year to support delivery of our Warmer Homes Scotland scheme and to assist social landlords in meeting the Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing.
The provisional budget outturn for 2016-17 notes a variance of £3m in the outturn in the Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Budget. This occurs in our Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland (HEEPS): Area Based Schemes, covering standard ABS projects and phase 1 of the Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Programme (SEEP) Pilots. The nature of these schemes involves technically difficult measures being installed on properties which can lead to delays in completion and invoicing. Officials are in regular contact with local authority counterparts seeking updates and reassurance on forecast spend. Despite repeated reassurances during the year, some councils declared an underspend very late in the financial year, by which time it was too late to use the allocated budget for this purpose. As is normal practice, this budget underspend was used to help offset additional spend elsewhere in the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 10 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-08107 by Keith Brown on 28 March 2017, whether there is sufficient data (a) collected and (b) available on the ethnicity pay gap.
Answer
The official source of information on the ethnicity pay gap is the Labour Force Survey, collected and published by the Office for National Statistics. ONS have previously published information on the ethnicity pay gap for the UK at:
The Scottish Government continues to monitor the relevance of Labour Market Statistical outputs against customer needs through various mechanisms including engagement with external stakeholders through SCOTSTAT and we will produce and develop new statistical outputs where possible in response to customer need.
We are aware that witnesses, at the recent Economy, Jobs and Fair Work Committee, on the Gender Pay Gap, raised questions of intersectionality of data and the need to consider issues like age, race and disability in conjunction with existing pay gap data and we will look to develop dissemination of Official sources, where possible in this area.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 10 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-08107 by Keith Brown on 28 March 2017, whether it will request that the Office for National Statistics produces pay gap data on personal characteristics such as ethnicity and nationality.
Answer
A request has been sent to ONS on the 28th of July requesting Labour Force Survey (LFS) earnings and pay gap tables. We have requested:
1. Information on the ethnicity (white/Non-white) pay gap and the nationality (UK national/Non-UK national) pay gap for Scotland.
2. Pay estimates for white/non-white by gender and UK national/non-UK national by gender, so that the gender pay gap can also be calculated for these 2 groups.
Once the analysis has been performed, it will be made available on the Scottish Government website at:
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Current Status:
Withdrawn
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many affordable homes were built in 2016-17, and how many were for social rent.
Answer
A total of 7336 affordable homes were delivered in 2016-17 and of these, 4580 were for social rent. Of the total affordable homes delivered 4634 were newly built homes, including 3671 newly built homes for social rent.
The Official Statistics on the Affordable Housing Supply Programme can be found at:
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2017
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many housing completions there have been by (a) local authorities, (b) housing associations and (c) the private sector in each year since 2007-08.
Answer
The following table shows the number of new build housing completions by (a) local authorities, (b) housing associations and (c) the private sector in each year since 2007-08:
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Financial Year
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Local Authority new build
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Housing Association new build
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Private sector new build
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2007-08
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28
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4,097
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21,663
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2008-09
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336
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4,577
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16,109
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2009-10
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413
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5,576
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11,133
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2010-11
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614
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5,111
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10,703
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2011-12
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1,114
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4,776
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10,109
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2012-13
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963
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3,244
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9,862
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2013-14
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1,140
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2,911
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10,833
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2014-15
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1,157
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3,064
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12,018
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2015-16
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1,138
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2,320
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12,782
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2016-17
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1,085
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2,748
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Not yet available*
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* Figures on private led completions for 2016-17 are not yet available as figures for January - March 2017 have not been published. These are scheduled for publication in September.
The above figures form part of the Official Statistics and can be found at:
