When hot fat or cooking oil is tipped down the sink it prevents flows of sewage and can lead to fatbergs forming.
The Scottish government's housing minister Paul McLennan said the new legislation was a "landmark moment."He added: "“The unanimous passing of this legislation will allow us to accelerate our work by addressing barriers to assessment and remediation and give homeowners and residents confidence in work carried out."
Speaking in the debate, Mr McLennan said the bill will ensure "faster delivery" of the remediation programme.Scottish Labour housing spokesman Mark Griffin said the next step "needs to be done at pace."At the time of Grenfell, cladding regulations were already stricter in Scotland than the rest of the UK, due to legislation that had been introduced in 2005.
This followed a fatal fire at the Garnock Court tower block in Irvine in 1999.The Unite trade union has said it is an "outrage" that an expected vote on the winter fuel payment cuts at the Labour Party conference has been delayed.
The non-binding vote had been expected on Monday, the same day Chancellor Rachel Reeves is giving her conference speech to party supporters in Liverpool.
The vote, which calls on the government to reverse cuts to the payment, is now expected on Wednesday when many activists will have left the conference.The top LA prosecutor at the time, George Gascón, announced that he was supporting the resentencing bid, days before an election in November 2024. He denied the announcement was political and argued it was a long time coming.
Gascón's announcement came shortly after a popular Netflix documentary and TV drama welcomed a new generation to the case. Many of the brothers' supporters suggest that if they were put on trial today, their allegations of abuse would be taken more seriously – potentially leading to a very different outcome.After Gascón lost his re-election bid, Nathan Hochman took over the his office and the Menendez case. Hochman came out forcefully against their resentencing request, and said the brothers continued to stick by a litany of "lies".
"They have not shown full insight into their crimes," he said. But Hochman was rebuked by a judge who allowed the resentencing request to move forward.The brothers have been following three paths in an effort to win their freedom. The other two are: