, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
You've got to be very quick, Lee. We need to move on.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, diolch yn fawr. Lee Waters. Lee.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
—hugely positive, isn't it?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Just to agree with the Cabinet Secretary, as well, Hannah, that it's really positive, isn't it, and encouraging that, when we're discussing a variety of issues now, Members of the Senedd are able and willing to talk about their own experiences, whether it's…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Fine, Siân?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Siân.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. I think, Hannah, would you just briefly turn to the pets issue?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, Hannah? Yes. Altaf Hussain.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Hannah Blythyn.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Siân.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Yes, please. James.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
James.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Yes, that's great, and if the committee could be kept up to date as things develop, that would be very good.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Sorry. Siân.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
James, do you want to continue?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
No.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, Siân? James.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Yes, I'm sure the whole committee would like to add their voices in terms of the thanks and the recognition that those staff deserve, doing such an incredibly important job with such commitment, which I think we all see in our own constituencies. Siân.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, Siân? Okay, thank you for that, Cabinet Secretary. Moving on to the housing support grant and what the future holds, would you plan to increase the housing support grant over the longer term, particularly because we need to see this rapid rehousing…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Yes, Siân.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Affordable homes taskforce—is it possible for you to provide a little bit more detail than we’ve had hitherto, Cabinet Secretary, in terms of how that taskforce will operate, what you would hope the outcomes to be, and, again, the sort of timescales…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Is there anything you could say about timescale for that, Cabinet Secretary, at this stage?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session—Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
We will move on to item 2, then, and that is our ministerial scrutiny session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government, Jayne Bryant. It’s a general scrutiny session today, in two parts—firstly, housing and then local government. Welcome…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Okay, welcome everyone—croeso to this meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee. We’ve received apologies today from Lesley Griffiths, and Hannah Blythyn is attending as a substitute; Hannah will be joining us shortly. One of our Members is…
