, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
3. What steps is the Welsh Government taking to ensure equal rights for children with disabilities? OQ57955
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
No—well, yes, question 6: what are the key barriers that need to be overcome to attract new entrants to the workforce and in reskilling the existing workforce? And, again, do you think that the Welsh Government have got their eye on this, about what's needed?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Thank you. And then, as the Welsh Government have still not published a net-zero skills action plan and that we're not expecting to see one published by at least the end of year, do you actually believe the Welsh Government are doing enough to attract skills…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 4
Diolch. According to the industry, between now and 2028, Wales will need to recruit, on average, an additional 2,000 full-time equivalent workers trained to carry out the highly technical challenge of decarbonising housing. Is this achievable?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
No, I didn't mean that, sorry; I meant for any enhanced improvements. So, they might be meeting it but only just, and yet, you know, further retrofit is needed.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Just a quick one that's arisen whilst I've been listening to everything today, and that is, yes, there are good landlords, private sector landlords, and there are those that, I think it's fair to say, the stick might be needed. But where you have a situation…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Okay. In what ways would your organisation like to see phase 3 and 4 of the optimised retrofit programme include the private sector, and what challenges do you foresee to the Welsh Government's full commitment to the decarbonisation of housing if the private…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Well, I've declared an interest, but I am an owner occupier, and I've got to be honest, ours is an old house, and I've often thought that I quite fancy that cladding that you put on the outside and then you can render it and things. But, honestly, I think…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
We need that data, don't we?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
So, am I right to assume that—I have to give credit where credit's due—Welsh Government are looking at tackling this head on and have put substantial amounts of money in the budget too, in their retrofit decarbonisation programme? I know, across Wales, there…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 3
Well, you've actually answered one of my questions about whether Wales requires specific decarbonisation targets for all housing tenures. But if specific decarbonisation targets were set for individual housing tenures, what steps do you think Welsh Government…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Thank you. It's funny, it was something I was going to raise with the Minister, because, to be fair, the Government are putting lots of money, throwing a lot of money, into this decarbonisation programme. But if these barriers exist, then—. And it's funny you…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
The reason I ask is because I know that, sometimes, private landlords get slated for not maintaining their properties, but you'd be amazed how often I'm approached by some landlords that say they're trying to actually get into people's properties to make the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Thank you. In terms of tenants and retrofitting and decarbonisation of homes, have we got any data on whether tenants have responded negatively or positively to installation of decarbonisation measures in their homes?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 2
Yes. I know you've started it off, Chair, asking about the plan. Do you think the Government has a coherent and strategic plan for all housing stock in Wales? Because we've heard earlier today about the private sector landlords, the owner-occupiers. It seems…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Yes. One incentive at the moment—. I'm really keen to see empty homes come back into use, so turning empty houses into homes, and, at the moment, there is an initiative of £20,000 from local authorities to be given to landlords to improve their properties to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Oh, sorry.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Currently, there is—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. And how do you think that landlords in the private rented sector should be encouraged and supported to improve the energy efficiency of their properties? I liked the part you mentioned earlier, that one incentive could be whereby they're having some…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you, Chair. The National Residential Landlords Association, otherwise known to us as the NRLA, has raised the possibility of conflicting directions of travel between the UK Government and the Welsh Government, in addition to local authorities'…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you. And then, of course, one of the Welsh Government's key mechanisms for delivering home energy efficiency improvements is the Warmer Homes programme. Now, the Welsh Government recently consulted on how to strengthen the Warmer Homes programme with a…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. And just coming back on that one, of course a large proportion of property ownership in Wales is owned by the private rented sector. So, technically, then, there could be quite a lot of homes that fall outside the umbrella. How do you think that needs…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
All of you, please.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonisation of Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you. Do you believe that the Welsh Government is clear about, understands the scale of the housing decarbonisation challenge and actually has a plan or strategy in place to deliver it?
