- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Patrick Harvie on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many heating and renewable installations under the (a) Warmer Homes Scotland (b) area-based schemes and (c) Home Energy Scotland Loans and Cashback schemes were (i) gas boilers (ii) electric storage heaters (iii) air source heat pumps (iv) oil boilers (v) solar PV (vi) LPG boilers (vii) biomass boilers (viii) domestic battery storage units, (ix) district heating connections and (x) solar thermal systems, in each year of operation of the respective schemes.
Answer
The answer to your question is outlined in the following tables. Please note, data for 2021-2022 Area Based Schemes are still being collected and will be published on the ABS webpage in due course: .
Warmer Homes Scotland
| 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 |
Gas Boilers | 1070 | 4010 | 4256 | 2627 | 2544 | 2633 | 3870 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 99 | 242 | 301 | 279 | 278 | 212 | 306 |
Air Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 32 | 70 | 122 | 138 | 166 | 261 |
Oil Boilers | 67 | 236 | 353 | 269 | 234 | 210 | 196 |
Solar PV | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 22 | 88 |
LPG Boilers | 50 | 574 | 484 | 114 | 90 | 74 | 49 |
Biomass Boilers | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
District Heating Connections | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Solar Thermal Systems | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Area Based Schemes
| 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 |
Gas Boilers | 2834 | 440 | 319 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 30 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 216 | 163 | 16 | 40 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
Air Source Heat Pumps | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 80 |
Oil Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Solar PV | 0 | 267 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 144 |
LPG Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biomass Boilers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
District Heating Connections | 554 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
Solar Thermal Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Home Energy Scotland Loans and Cashback
| 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022 |
Gas Boilers | 569 | 604 | 394 | 221 | 176 |
Electric Storage Heaters | 19 | 27 | 21 | 10 | 9 |
(Heat Pumps (Air Source/Ground Source/Water Source and ASHP hybrids | 258 | 426 | 531 | 732 | 1187 |
Oil Boilers | 58 | 69 | 18 | 33 | 20 |
Solar PV | 69 | 336 | 176 | 224 | 354 |
LPG Boilers | 10 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
Biomass Boilers | 40 | 48 | 50 | 37 | 50 |
Domestic Battery Storage Units | 0 | 82 | 88 | 151 | 225 |
District Heating Connections | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Solar Thermal Systems | Numbers included in Solar PV |
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09182 by Shona Robison on 24 June 2022, whether landlords are legally obliged to provide additional information when completing an amended section 11 notice form, where that requested information is not in the form prescribed in Schedule 1 of The Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations 2008.
Answer
Section 11 of the Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 requires a landlord to notify the local authority when proceedings for possession are raised providing information prescribed in Schedule 1 of The Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations 2008. Landlords are not legally obliged to provide any further information.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09182 by Shona Robison on 24 June 2022, whether it will set out the part of the (a) Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 and (b) Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations 2008 that (i) allows local authorities to amend and (ii) places a duty on local authorities to provide the section 11 notice form.
Answer
(a) – The relevant part of the Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003 can be found under Section 11 of the Homelessness etc (S) Act 2003 at
(b) – Schedule 1 of the Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations sets out the form of notice that must be provided to the LA under section 11 of the 2003 Act at . As this is a statutory notice, local authorities must require notice to be provided in this form.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09182 by Shona Robison on 24 June 2022, whether it can provide a breakdown of any local authorities that have amended the section 11 notice form of the Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003.
Answer
Section 11 of the Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 requires a landlord to notify the local authority when proceedings for possession are raised providing information prescribed in Schedule 1 of The Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations 2008. Local authorities produce templates in line with Schedule 1. The Scottish Government does not require local authorities to provide these templates for validation so if any local authorities have amended the section 11 notice form to include information not prescribed within Section 1 of The Notice to Local Authorities (Scotland) Regulations 2008, the Scottish Government is not made aware of this.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties (a) built in each of the last five years and (b) under construction in 2022-23, under the affordable housing supply programme, (i) have zero carbon heating systems installed, (ii) received the greener subsidy and (iii) attained (A) bronze (B) bronze active (C) silver (D) silver active (E) gold or (F) platinum levels of sustainability.
Answer
With regard to (a) and (b) (i), we do not currently, but do plan to shortly collect this information. For (a) and (b) (ii), information on RSL and council house social rent approvals which qualified for higher greener subsidy is published within our annual
For easy reference, the following table shows the information that we hold for homes which have or have not been approved to the higher greener standard:
Financial Year | Yes | No | Total Homes |
2016-17 | 3,162 | 3,948 | 7,110 |
2017-18 | 4,606 | 2,715 | 7,321 |
2018-19 | 6,878 | 859 | 7,737 |
2019-20 | 9,258 | 798 | 10,056 |
2020-21 | 4,502 | 1,034 | 5,536 |
Total Homes | 28,406 | 9,354 | 37,760 |
With regard to (a) and (b) (iii), we do not collect this information.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09562 by Shona Robison on 13 July 2022, whether it will address the issue raised in the question regarding what action it is taking to improve public perception of the affordable housing supply programme, in light of Shelter Scotland's recent survey findings, conducted by YouGov, which reportedly found that 60% of adults in Scotland think that it is unlikely that the Scottish Government will deliver on its target of providing 110,000 affordable homes by 2032; what its response is to Shelter’s reported findings; whether it conducts its own polling and public perception research regarding the affordable housing supply programme, and (a) in what way and (b) how frequently it reviews the outcomes and deliverables of this programme.
Answer
The Scottish Government appreciates the spotlight that Shelter Scotland shines on our shared vision of a safe, secure, affordable home for everyone in Scotland.
Having delivered our previous 50,000 affordable homes target, we have now started to deliver against our commitment to 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, 70% of which will be for social rent and 10% in remote, rural and island areas.
We do not conduct our own polling and public perception research. However, we do publish quarterly and annual that focus on how the Affordable Housing Supply Programme resources were spent and what they delivered, in line with priorities and outcomes identified within local authority Strategic Housing Investment Plans which set out the key strategic affordable housing investment priorities.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09252 by Shona Robison on 21 July 2022, whether these sums of money are included in the Single Building Assessment programme: spending information, which was released on 12 May 2022, and how much has been spent on contractors (a) prior to July 2021 and (b) in July and August 2022.
Answer
Contractor spend prior to July 2021 was £0. b) The contractor spend for July 2022 is £16,422 and August 2022 projected spend is £18,829.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 August 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, whether it will prepare a medium-rise inventory, in light of the Building (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022, which ban combustible cladding on buildings with any storey at a height of more than 11 metres above the ground.
Answer
As part of the Cladding Remediation Programme we will create a Building Safety Register. This register will include blocks of flats, of any height, assessed as 'low risk' or remediated as an outcome of the Single Building Assessment process.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 19 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08297 by Shona Robison on 12 May 2022, whether it will
provide an update on how many properties are at each stage of assessment, how
many single building assessments have been supplied to building owners, and
what the average amount of time is that each phase has taken.
Answer
Single Building Assessment applicants are supported through the process to complete the application form and commission professional services ahead of receiving the final survey report. 10 pilot blocks are within the Application Phase and 15 pilot blocks are within the Delivery Phase. The Single Building Assessment provides an individualised process therefore timescales vary on a building by building basis.
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 04 August 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 16 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the draft Bill regarding tenement maintenance will not be introduced until 2026, and whether it will ask the Scottish Law Commission to review its timetable.
Answer
I refer the member to my response on this matter, which was sent to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 25 March 2022, and which is published in the correspondence of that Committee on the Scottish Parliament website at response-from-shona-robison-25-march.pdf (parliament.scot) .