, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Sorry, Cabinet Secretary, please carry on.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Could I just ask on that, because it intrigues me that—perhaps 'intrigues' is the wrong word, but concerns me, maybe, that—over four years, we're seeing a doubling, really, in costs. So, presumably, the price of a new-build house hasn't doubled over four…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay, thank you very much. And Carolyn Thomas.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Peter.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. Siân Gwenllian.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Just one further question from me on homelessness, Cabinet Secretary, just staying with the issues around the UK Government and local authorities, local authorities are finding that their temporary accommodation budgets are very strained, partly because of…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Carolyn.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Siân, yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. In terms of your work with local authorities and homelessness, Cabinet Secretary, have you done any work, perhaps, jointly with local authorities, in terms of the shortfalls between the amounts that local authorities are spending on meeting their…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Yes. Thanks for that. Cabinet Secretary, we'll come on to many of the matters that you've mentioned in further questions from committee members, but, just for now, if we deal with homelessness and the impact of the budget, the draft budget, in terms of…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Thank you for that, Cabinet Secretary. So, at the moment then, with regard to the draft budget, housing and regeneration get 4.9 per cent of the overall budget. I'm sure you'd like to see more resource going into housing and regeneration, as the Cabinet…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
Okay. Bore da. Thanks very much for coming in to give evidence to committee this morning. Perhaps I might begin with some general questions. Firstly, on the overall anticipated impact of the draft budget, what do you see, Cabinet Secretary, as the main…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Housing)
We will move on, then, to item 2, which is scrutiny of the Welsh Government's draft budget with regard to housing. I'm very pleased to welcome here today to give evidence to the committee Jayne Bryant MS, the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local…
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Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Welcome, everyone, to this meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee. The first item on our agenda today is introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest. We've received apologies from Laura Anne Jones and Lesley Griffiths…
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Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting
Item 4 is a motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting. Is committee content so to do? I see that you are. We will move to private session.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
Our next item today is item 3, papers to note. Paper 2 is a letter from Community Leisure UK in relation to the Welsh Government draft budget. Paper 3 is a letter from Audit Wales with additional information regarding our work on governance of town and…
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Okay, Peter, thank you very much. I think that concludes our session. I'd like to thank Mary Ann, Mark, Gary and Jane very much indeed for staying with us well beyond the time that we'd allotted for this session. We're very grateful for that. We had a lot of…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you for that, Jane. Peter.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you, Peter. Jane.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
No, absolutely. Okay, Peter. Peter Fox.
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Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Thank you very much, Mark. Are you content, Siân?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Okay. And Mark.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Mary Ann.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2025-26: Evidence session 1—Welsh Local Government Association
Who would like to respond? Gary.
