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Question reference: S6W-28586

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 24 July 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide any cost or budget estimates that it has produced for the reopening of its Open Market Shared Equity scheme.

Question reference: S6W-28528

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 15 July 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 24 July 2024

To ask the Scottish Government for how long its reopened Open Market Shared Equity scheme will remain open.

Due to wider funding constraints, we have operated the Open Market Shared Equity Scheme (OMSE) with a reduced budget in 2024-25.

Following extremely high demand in June 2024 and in order to ensure that we settle all properties within budget, we have paused new applications from 19 July 2024 and will review remaining budget allocations in the coming months.

The scheme is likely to reopen when current passports expire and/or are withdrawn making funding available for reallocation.

Question reference: S6W-28526

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 24 July 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a summary of any evidence-based assessments it made of the possible outcomes of the reopening its Open Market Shared Equity scheme.

Our evaluation reports are available via this link: Shared equity schemes: evaluation reports - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . The evaluation concluded that OMSE provides significant additionality, and is effective in enabling lower income households to overcome price and deposit constraints to become a homeowner.

The Scottish Government has continued to monitor the performance of OMSE which delivered over 900 affordable homes for priority groups and first time buyers in 2023-24. In 2022 we also made several evidence based adjustments to the scheme to further support priority groups into affordable home ownership.

Based on previous years’ financial spend we expect that the current budget could provide up to an additional 466 units.

Question reference: S6O-03701

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 July 2024

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Question reference: S6W-26902

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

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Question reference: S6W-26910

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government r

Question reference: S6W-26916

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government q

Question reference: S6W-26907

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government r

Question reference: S6W-26918

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government q

Question reference: S6W-26913

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government q

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