 Felly, y dyfodol y ddweud y bydd ymlaen o'r iawn o'r ddweud. A i ddweud, Douglas Lumsden? Felly, â'r ddweud, byddai'n byddai'n gweithio cyflomidol, mae'r ddweud y cyflomidol wedi'i ddadlion o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r stiwyrt-melln gyfanfyrdd o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud? I thank Douglas Lumsden for securing this important question. I know that there is considerable interest from colleagues in the north-east and across Scotland in this matter. I was very sorry to hear that Stuart Millan's group had ceased trading after 49 years. Her thoughts are with the affected employees, their families at this very difficult time. I met with the administrators Teno this morning. I made clear to them that I want to see every possible support to be offered to affected staff, contractors, suppliers and home buyers. The people affected by this announcement are our immediate priority and the Scottish Government is providing support through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, the partnership action for continuing employment pace. Through providing skills development and employment support, pace aims to minimise the time that individuals affected by redundancy are out of work. The administrators have confirmed that they are working closely with pace to provide those being made redundant with the relevant relevant information. I am pleased to hear that the Scottish Government is taking this matter so seriously. This is dreadful news for the 217 direct employees of Stuart Millan's group, but there will also be serious concerns for all those connected to the supply chain, including contractors and self-employed tradespeople. Can the cabinet secretary confirm if there will also be help available to those people who are not directly employed but who could now find themselves facing the prospect of losing their livelihoods due to the collapse of Stuart Millan's group? We understand that approaches have been received from potential recruiters already for those employees that have lost their jobs or who are at risk of losing their jobs. PACE has asked the administrators to distribute opportunity information to the affected employees. Douglas London will be aware that the redundancy payments process is a matter for the redundancy payments service and the insolvency service. I will write to Kevin Hollenrake, who is the responsible minister, to ask him to look as sympathetically as possible to the very clear point that Douglas Lumsden has raised, which is about the impact that it will have on self-employed subcontractors. I understand that that will be a very difficult process. I am asking him to look on that favourably. Cabinet Secretary, another group of people that I would like to highlight and who will also be concerned that this development will be the customers of Stuart Millan's group. Either those who have placed a deposit and are awaiting their keys and also home owners who have moved in and may have remedial work outstanding. Some owners will also have concerns that paths and roads that were due for adoption by local authorities have not yet been completed, so they will be unsure on where that burden may fall. I presume that the administrator Tenio will be the first point of contact, but is there any further advice that the Cabinet Secretary can give for those living in that almost like building sites and for those people who have saved up for a deposit and will now see their life savings at risk? Yes. This was an area that I raised with Tenio in the conversations that I had this morning. Douglas Lumsden will understand that we are coming at this within a 24-hour period, as are Tenio. Some of that information will be moving in from that regard. I am happy to make sure that, as the situation develops, I provide as much information as possible. Colleagues across the chamber who I understand will be interested in this and are as well briefed as possible as the situation develops. My understanding is that Tenio is in discussions with NHBC and others around ensuring the situation that he fairly raises around the very difficult situation that people will be finding themselves in some cases in limbo can be resolved. That will be a challenge, obviously, depending on the circumstances. As soon as I have more information and as soon as the administrators have more information, I will do everything that I can to make sure that colleagues are kept up to date. The Stewart-Mellon group has been a significant employer and a significant home builder in Aberdeen in the north-east for nearly 50 years. Its loss will have a significant impact on the communities that I and others represent. I am very pleased to hear the cabinet secretary that he has already been in touch with the administrators and SNP parliamentary colleagues and I have already written to them, too. I am pleased to hear that some moves have been made to garner the facts about what will happen, not only to employees but also to those who have invested in homes. I would appreciate continued updates on that. If the cabinet secretary could also look to ensure that NHBC guarantees stand for those who are currently in Stewart-Mellon homes, I wonder if an extra effort could be made to find jobs for any apprentices who are currently working with the Stewart-Mellon group. I thank Kevin Stewart for his question and the correspondence that he and colleagues sent to me on the matter last night in the interest that colleagues across the chamber have taken in that matter. Stewart-Mellon is based in Aberdeen, but the repercussions of that will be felt across Scotland, given its interests across Scotland. Kevin Stewart raises two very important issues, one around NHBC and their guarantees. My understanding is that Tenno is in discussions with NHBC about the practicalities of that and how that can be further communicated. As soon as I have further information to that regard, I will ensure that Kevin Stewart and colleagues are kept up to date. Secondly, in terms of employment prospects in general, but also in particular for apprentices, I think that Kevin Stewart makes a very fair point. I would imagine that there will be skills that will be in high demand, regardless of where they are in the country. We will certainly continue to do all that we can through PACE to ensure that employment opportunities are further as quickly as possible. Daniel Johnson Since 2007, Scotland's average annual rate of housing completion has been almost 5,000 lower than the decade prior. It has been reassuring to hear the answers about the tragic loss of jobs following this closure, but we must also raise concerns about housing capacity altogether. How many uncompleted planning consensus does Stewart-Mellon hold? How many houses are currently mid-construction and remain uncompleted? Given the factors behind this closure that are not unique, what dialogue and actions is the Scottish Government taking to ensure that we support other housebuilders who may be under financial issues? I thank Daniel Johnson for those questions. As I have outlaid in my last answer to Douglas Lums, we are still within 24 hours of Tenno taking on the administration of Stewart-Mellon Homes. Both ourselves and Tenno are trying to ensure that we get the full facts of the situation as quickly as possible, but some of the questions that I hope Daniel Johnson will forgive me, we will need some time to ensure that we get. However, those are questions that we have asked. Those are areas that we are looking to make sure that we get further information on, and will be of particular interest to the administration process, because obviously that will be part of the marketing of any assets that may well be available going forward. There will obviously be interest, I hope, in ensuring that some of those sites can be taken forward by other parties, but that is for obviously the administration process going forward. Like Douglas Lums and like Kevin Stewart, I will offer to Daniel Johnson further briefing as it becomes available. The combination of the Liz Truss budget but also the massive cuts to the social housing programme is partly responsible for what we have seen today, because it is a symptom of a housing sector in crisis. Last month the Government rejected the plea for it to declare a housing emergency. Does that not indicate that the Government was wrong last month and should now change its mind? I am really sorry genuinely with all due respect to Willie Rennie that he chose to politicise the matter at this stage, not least because Stuart Milne said as he went through the sales process that the issue was to do with the wider UK housing market. Of course we will do all that we can in order to ensure that we continue to invest in house building in Scotland, understanding the critical role that it plays not just for the economy but also as our social infrastructure, and we will continue to do all we can in the face of a declining capital budget from the UK Government to ensure that we can respond as best we can and most effectively that we can.