1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Craffu ar y Gweinidog Cabinet dros Lywodraeth Leol, Tai a Chynllunio ar y Rheoliadau Cynrychiolaeth y Bobl (Cofrestru Etholiadol heb Geisiadau) (Diwygio Etholiadol) (Cymru) 2026
Take me, for example—and I'm going to move on to more complicated ones afterwards—I'm known as Mike Hedges, Michael Hedges and Michael John Hedges in different places. But it's also more complicated in some families, where first names and surnames run down…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Craffu ar y Gweinidog Cabinet dros Lywodraeth Leol, Tai a Chynllunio ar y Rheoliadau Cynrychiolaeth y Bobl (Cofrestru Etholiadol heb Geisiadau) (Diwygio Etholiadol) (Cymru) 2026
I want to ask you about data. I'll be briefer than I really want to be. Are there any legislative barriers that prevent access to national data like national insurance numbers? Actually finding people can be incredibly difficult. The ability to have data out…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I can only speak on Morriston, where I live, in great detail, and Swansea in much less detail, but there are chapels all over the place. The one thing that south Wales has got, and I'm sure north Wales as well, is lots of chapels. Their congregations have…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I was going to raise that you must all have pubs and you must all have chapels that used to be very popular but have now gone into disuse and are in various stages of dereliction. I think everyone else in the room recognises those. Have you any experience of…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Well, there are actually cases of this.
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
My question is that we were told earlier there is no difficulty in enforcing against somebody living in prison: do you find that there's no problem enforcing against somebody living in prison? Are there any problems enforcing against somebody who lives abroad…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Okay, thank you.
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I did mention the two previous things of the carrot of, 'You can have grant funding for renovation', and the stick of, 'You've got to pay additional council tax, if you don't bring it back into use.' Have those worked at all? Somebody else can answer, if you…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
We had the carrot of grant money, didn't we, for people who wanted to do work on a house to bring it back into use. We had the stick of having higher rates of council tax able to be charged. And then we had the big stick of compulsory purchase orders. Have…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Danbert House, which is a very big building in Morriston and which has been derelict for about 20 years, the council have only taken it on every time they've had to do safety work and, having done the safety work, they can then sell it in order to recoup the…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Quite simply, enforcement is wonderful. How do you enforce against somebody in prison? How do you enforce against somebody who's moved abroad, and how do you enforce when, having started the enforcement action, they then transfer the property to someone else?…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Well, a court will decide that.
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
As a fellow Member for the area will know, that is not a recent one; that goes back well over a decade.
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Sometimes people make houses uninhabitable. There is a house in Penllergaer that is a four-bedroomed detached house, which is very nice and it's on the main road, and the doors have been bricked up, the windows have been bricked up. It's uninhabitable…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
If you can give us the numbers—. Can I ask for them in writing after this meeting? But if you could let us know the reasons you've got in percentages, or approximate percentages, for why these properties are empty.
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, that's very useful. Can you give us the percentages for each reason for empty properties? You said that that was a very small number. Can you tell us what the bigger numbers are?
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I was going to say, finally from me, that one of the problems is that some of them are empty because of battles over probate, battles over wills, the fact that, even when probate is granted, people want to go to court to say that the will is not fair and that…
1 Hydref 2026 , Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Ymchwiliad dilynol i Eiddo Gwag: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I'll ask it in two parts. I think the first one is: how can you have a strategic approach when you don't know the reasons for empty properties? I won't go into detail, but there are about four or five major reasons why properties are empty. Until you know…
30 Medi 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Dirprwy Brif Weinidog a’r Gweinidog Cabinet dros Gyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a Chydraddoldeb
Mae Dechrau'n Deg yn fenter wych, er gwaethaf ei diffygion. Mae gormod o blant yn dechrau yn y feithrinfa gydag oed datblygiad o ddwy oed, tra bo rhai o'r plant mwy datblygedig yn dechrau gydag oed datblygiad sy'n agos at bedair oed. Mae rhai'n dechrau heb…
30 Medi 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Dirprwy Brif Weinidog a’r Gweinidog Cabinet dros Gyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a Chydraddoldeb
Diolch am eich ateb.
30 Medi 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i’r Dirprwy Brif Weinidog a’r Gweinidog Cabinet dros Gyfiawnder Cymdeithasol a Chydraddoldeb
2. Sut y bydd Llywodraeth Cymru yn sicrhau y bydd Dechrau'n Deg a'r cynnig gofal plant newydd 20 awr, gyda'i gilydd, yn ddigon hyblyg i gefnogi bywydau gwaith teuluoedd? OQ64565
28 Medi 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Gwaith craffu blynyddol gyda Chwaraeon Cymru
Women need different toilet facilities to men.
28 Medi 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Gwaith craffu blynyddol gyda Chwaraeon Cymru
Please will you start advocating?
28 Medi 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Gwaith craffu blynyddol gyda Chwaraeon Cymru
I have two very brief points. I think that you probably both remember when 'Walk, wheel or cycle a mile a day' was the mantra for schools. That's disappeared. Some schools are still doing it, but it's certainly not something that either you, the Welsh…
28 Medi 2026 , Culture, Communications, Cymraeg and Sport Committee
Gwaith craffu ar Weinidog: Gweinidog y Cabinet dros Addysg a'r Gymraeg
Diolch. Hapus.
