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I am grateful for advance sight of the cabinet secretary’s statement. The pilot has compounded residents’ stress and worry about the safety of their buildings, some of which are currently valued by financial institutions as being worthless. Householders have struggled to find qualified and competent assessors; the Government should have offered a proper service from the start. As happens...
2. I draw members’ attention to my entry in the register of members’ interests as an owner of a rented property in North Lanarkshire. To ask the Scottish Government what preparations it is making to support people in Scotland, in light of the reported comments by the chief executive of Scottish Power warning that 10 million United Kingdom homes could potentially be in fuel poverty this...
The first part of the solution to rocketing fuel costs is to put money into the pockets of the people who need it most. Scottish Labour had a plan to do that, but the Government ignored it in favour of mirroring the unfair UK scheme. The second part is to make people’s homes cheaper to heat as soon as it is humanly possible. Last week, the Existing Homes Alliance set out a framework of...
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