, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Diolch. Diolch, Gadeirydd.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
Do you as a Government have a definition to hand that you would use in discussing the sector?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
I understand the difference. The explanatory memorandum discusses the meaning of the term 'residential outdoor education'. But are you of the view as a Government that there would be a need to go further than that and to define the term, and the nature of the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
So, that's the main source of your objection—namely, the direct, practical outcomes and results rather than the use of a clause in legislation to require you to provide sufficient funding.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
So, it's the nature of the guidance being recommended that suggests that there is a deficiency in terms of opportunities to review the guidance. The Bill does place a duty on the Government to fund local authorities adequately in order to meet the Bill's aims…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill: Evidence Session
You've touched on this already. Contrary to the case with the code, there is no specific scrutiny procedure applied to the guidance. According to what you said, you think that that is an error in the Bill as currently drafted.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
You referred to care and repair there. Are you're open, therefore, to the idea that they have promoted of creating a fund or source of funding to improve houses that have reached a dangerous state of dilapidation and could lead to the deterioration of older…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much. If I may turn, finally, to the link that we touched on earlier between investment and health benefits and funding for housing. It was good to see that emphasis that you placed on mould, and you referred yesterday to a constituent of mine…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
May I turn to decarbonisation now? You have some broad targets for the social housing sector—you can correct me if I'm wrong, but EPC C by the end of the decade, and so on. Do you have now, or how close are you to getting to a path towards decarbonisation for…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Just in terms of the maximum set in terms of the increase in social rent of 6.7 per cent—the ceiling, rather—what work did you do to assess the impact on tenants' financial well-being, the financial situation of tenants who pay themselves?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024 - 25 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Chair. I’m going to turn to a cluster of themes, namely decarbonisation, housing standards, and so on. First of all, how do you strike the right balance between financing on one hand the Welsh housing quality standard—the new standard—and on the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you. Thank you, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
In terms of borrowing, is it true that different types of borrowing have different scales in terms of the interest rates—for housing, for example. Is the interest rate for borrowing lower than for capital in general? I was reading that the Government in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
And looking more widely, then, at capital funding in general, do you accept, similarly, that it will be more difficult for local authorities to contribute to achieving net-zero targets as quickly as would have been possible if it wasn’t for the financial…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
All right. The subject is sustainability and net zero. Do you accept that a reduction in the BEL for Ystadau Cymru can have some kind of impact on work regarding net zero?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 2: Minister for Finance and Local Government
Just to finish, Chair, yes? Turning to sustainability, can you—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
In England, they are currently consulting—controversially in terms of the timing, perhaps, or insensitively—on greater freedom to use capital and borrowing powers for revenue purposes. You referred there to the use of borrowing for investment projects in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
In the case of the six councils in England that have declared status approaching bankruptcy under section 114—Birmingham, Croydon, Thurrock and so on—their borrowing levels have been an important factor in all of their cases, truth be told. Borrowing levels…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2024-25 - evidence session 1: Welsh Local Government Association
I'd like to turn to questions related to capital costs and borrowing, beginning with a question asking whether there are potential implications in terms of having to postpone capital programmes, as a result of financial pressures, that would, ultimately, also…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Thank you very much, Peter. I'm sure that Audit Wales will have heard those comments. I just wanted to ask you as, in your response to Natasha Asghar relating to training the workforce, you had said that, over and above the specific additional funding that…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Peter Richards.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Yes, just a simple question: is there anything else in the report by Audit Wales that you'd like to highlight for us, or something that you'd like to emphasise?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Evidence Session: Building Safety in Wales
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
