, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Finance and Local Government
We reach item 3 on our agenda today, then, which is a further ministerial scrutiny session with the Minister for Finance and Local Government this time. Welcome to committee today, Minister. Would you like to introduce your officials, or your officials to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Bye, then. Okay, committee, we'll break briefly then, until 10:30.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Not at all. Thank you for being with us, despite your current difficulties with obviously a heavy cold, Minister. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Okay, Minister, thank you very much indeed. And thank you also to all your officials for giving evidence to the committee today. You will, of course, be sent a transcript to check for factual accuracy in the usual way. Diolch yn fawr.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thanks, Jayne. Minister, just one final question before you go, and perhaps get a nice hot drink or something, on decarbonisation of homes in the private sector. How will Welsh Government be supporting that?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Okay, thank you, Sam, thank you, Minister. Jayne Bryant.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much. Sam Rowlands. Sam.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mabon. Diolch yn fawr. Joel James.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Okay, thank you, both. Mabon.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Emma, if you're happy—?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Thank you, Carolyn. We move on, then, to Mabon ap Gwynfor.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thank you very much. We'll move on to Carolyn Thomas.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
That's fine, thank you, Minister. Finally from me then on homelessness, you mentioned Crisis and the role that they've played, and the expert panel has obviously been very influential—rightly so, I would say. Could you tell the committee how the homelessness…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thank you for that. What impact would you expect from adding rough sleepers to the categories of priority need, and why is that seen as necessary given the ongoing 'no-one left out' approach?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, absolutely. In terms of legislation then, Minister, I wonder if you could firstly expand on the proposals for transitional homelessness regulations and the reasons for bringing those regulations forward before the more fundamental change that we're going…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Okay. Minister, just with regard to your working with local authorities, and indeed all the other agencies that are helping deal with the homelessness challenge, with 1,300 people presenting with potential homelessness, at least, every month, will you be…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, I see. So, in the light of that, Minister, despite all that you've said in terms of Government funding and programmes, it's obviously going to be a very difficult time over the winter and beyond in terms of homelessness. You mentioned temporary…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thirteen hundred.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Thanks for that, Minister. Clearly, there's a substantial Welsh Government effort taking place with programmes and funding that go beyond your ministerial responsibilities, and it's all highly relevant. We will come on to renting homes later. Minister, you…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
It's that time of year, I'm afraid, isn't it?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session - Minister for Climate Change
Then we will move on to item 2, which is a ministerial scrutiny session with the Minister for Climate Change, Julie James. So, may I welcome the Minister to this meeting? And also the Minister's officials: Emma Williams, who's director of housing and…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Okay, may I welcome everyone, then, to this first meeting of the autumn term of the Local Government and Housing Committee? The meeting is being held in hybrid format, but aside from the adaptations relating to conducting proceedings in hybrid format, all…
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Update on the Cost of Living
First Minister, there is no doubt that very many families in the most vulnerable circumstances in Wales are extremely worried at what will come at them this winter, and I think we can all understand that, given the situation that we face. This does require…
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Economic strategy for coastal and rural communities
Okay. Diolch yn fawr.
, Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister
Economic strategy for coastal and rural communities
Could I ask, just finally, Cadeirydd—? You had those four basic requirements, First Minister, that needed to be met before Welsh Government would give its support to a free port or free ports in Wales. Are you now in a position where, on the more specific…
