Chamber
Meeting of the Parliament 18 December 2025 [Draft]
18 Dec 2025 · S6 · Meeting of the Parliament
Item of business
Portfolio Question Time
Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Housebuilders (Support)
Social Justice and Housing
Is the cabinet secretary aware that, between the late timing of the United Kingdom budget and the traditional Christmas slowdown, house sales have dropped for longer than usual, with some developers pausing work on sites? That will make Tuesday’s statistics on new starts and completions even bleaker.
With the Scottish budget fast approaching, when the cabinet secretary met Homes for Scotland, was she able to support its calls regarding any increased capital consequential funding coming to Scotland to provide support for first-time buyers, to confirm multiyear funding commitments to the affordable housing supply programme, and to provide increases to the planning budget to ensure that resource and capacity are increased?
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5. Alexander Burnett (Aberdeenshire West) (Con)
Con
I refer members to my entry regarding construction in the register of members’ interests. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support...
The Cabinet Secretary for Housing (Màiri McAllan)
SNP
As well as discussing the needs of SME house builders at the Homes for Scotland board, which the First Minister and I attend, I have held subsequent bespoke ...
Alexander Burnett
Con
Is the cabinet secretary aware that, between the late timing of the United Kingdom budget and the traditional Christmas slowdown, house sales have dropped fo...
Màiri McAllan
SNP
I meet Homes for Scotland regularly and speak to it in detail about its proposals. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government will set out the co...
Willie Coffey (Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley) (SNP)
SNP
Will the cabinet secretary say a little more about the importance of proportionality in the planning system for SME house builders and, in particular, how th...
Màiri McAllan
SNP
Proportionality is key, because we are talking about a question of viability. Viability requires regularity, and it requires SMEs to be able to enter the pla...