, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Lawrence. We’ll move on to Sam Rowlands.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Thank you very much, Lawrence. A further question from me, then, before we move on to other committee members. I guess in any modelling or analysis, there will be benefits and disbenefits, advantages and disadvantages. Did your research highlight arguments…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Lawrence, in terms of your modelling and additional benefits over and above what would happen anyway, your analysis would extend beyond Welsh Government policies to address climate change to other aspects of housing policy that will also deliver benefits…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Yes, please do, Lawrence. Yes, that would be useful. Yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 2
Welcome back, everyone, to the Local Government and Housing Committee's evidence sessions on the right to adequate housing, and our second evidence session today, where we are joined virtually by Lawrence Newland, who's director of Alma Economics, and Maria…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. Committee will break until 10:45.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, all three, for coming in to give evidence to committee this morning. You will be sent a transcript to check for factual accuracy in the usual way. Diolch yn fawr.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Mabon.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. We've very nearly reached the end of this evidence session. Is there anything you'd like to add on data? You've touched on it already, but any obvious gaps that you'd like to highlight that would need to be addressed to take this policy forward? No.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, Joel?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Joel.
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Today, yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, Mabon. Thank you very much. Joel.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, Jayne. Thank you very much. Mabon.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Jayne.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Yes, sure, Mabon.
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, Sam. Jayne.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Thank you very much. That does bring us on to further questions. Sam Rowlands. Sam.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, Ruth. Thank you very much.
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The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Yes, okay, thank you very much. In Scotland, they're talking about a comprehensive audit, aren't they, of existing legislation on housing and homelessness. Is that something that would necessarily be part of the process in Wales, do you think?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. Ruth, sorry, did you want to come in?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay, thank you very much. Alicja, you mentioned other countries that have this right and have incorporated this right. What do you think Wales can learn from those other countries, and would you direct us towards any in particular, in terms of good practice?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Yes, okay. Thank you very much. Could you also tell committee how you would see the right interacting with existing housing legislation in Wales, how it would complement and strengthen the existing legislation?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
One aspect, of course, of adequate housing is safety, isn't it? You mentioned Grenfell Tower, and there are various blocks of flats and people living there, some of them owning rights to their properties, others not. So, that would be one aspect of its…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
The Right to Adequate Housing - evidence session 1
Okay. Well, thank you all very much. It's very useful, I think, to have that general introduction, and you've covered quite a lot of ground and we'll be coming back to much of that in questions through this session. Could I just ask—? I guess people will…
