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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for ��˿�� to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6W-11760

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether cladding remediation costs identified as a result of a single building assessment will be funded (a) fully or (b) partially, and what funding options the Scottish Ministers have considered, subsequent to the meeting of the Cladding Programme Board on 20 October 2021.

Question reference: S6W-11758

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it is the case that four companies are currently providing services to assess cladded buildings in Scotland, and that it could take these companies, focusing on this programme exclusively, a minimum of two years to assess all high rise buildings.

Question reference: S6W-11756

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has been advised by the Institution of Fire Engineers of how many fire engineers in Scotland are (a) included on the starter register and (b) registered as being suitably trained in relation to the initial phase of the single building assessment.

Question reference: S6W-11649

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-09128 and S6W-10972 by Shona Robison on 29 June and 20 September 2022, whether it will publish all data it has received from local authorities on Tenant Grant Fund spending to date.

Question reference: S6W-11759

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether single building assessment reports are subject to peer review.

Question reference: S6W-11757

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Victoria State Government, Australia, regarding sharing experiences of cladding remediation programmes.

Question reference: S6W-11669

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much additional funding it has allocated to the Tenant Grant Fund as a result of its Programme for Government announcement to widen eligibility, broken down by the allocation to each local authority.

Each local authority was awarded an allocation of funds, to be used in the last financial year, ending 31 March 2022. Where it has not been possible to spend this in full, local authorities can continue to use their allocation in 2022-23 until fully spent.

Existing funding has not been exhausted and there are no plans to provide additional funding at present. However our emergency budget review, published on 2 November 2022, has outlined significant funds to help those most affected by the cost of living crisis. The Scottish Government will continue to do everything within our resources and powers to help those most affected by the cost of living crisis.

Question reference: S6O-01556

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the processing of appeals for the 2022 National Qualifications exams.

Question reference: S6W-11539

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10193 by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022, regarding the single building assessment, what its position is on whether ventilated car parks under buildings may accelerate fire spread.

Question reference: S6W-11537

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the status is of each (a) single building assessment and (b) single building assessment application it has received under the grant-based approach.