, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, so, that's a really complicated issue, Carolyn. So, what we're doing is we're running out the optimised retrofit programme with our social housing providers. We have a number of them on board with that. What we're doing, as I think I said before in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, so, we have a whole—. Sorry, Emma, I'll come back to you again, but just in terms of policy, Joel, we absolutely have a whole budget for that. And that's what the regional partnership boards look at. So, the councils and the health boards together look…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, there should not be a postcode lottery, Again, I'll bring Emma in in a moment. But there should not, absolutely, be a postcode lottery. It's an ongoing conversation with local authorities to make sure that they're spending the right pot of money, so…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes. Thanks very much, Joel. The budget for adaptations has gone from—hang on, let me just find my table—£17.66 million in 2021-22 to £19.5 million. There was an additional £1.84 million, which has been wrongly allocated to the ICF BEL at draft budget, which…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes. So, Chair, at the moment, we are still in the process of a series of consultations and looking at the outcome of those consultations and so on. We are about to start the pilot in Dwyfor, and so the budget reflects the point in time that we are at with…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Just on that, Chair, just one last remark, if you don't mind, obviously the issue of social care is an issue right across western Europe, as societies age. So, one of the things that I'm really pleased about, and I just want to re-emphasise, really, is that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
I'll bring Emma in in a moment, Sam, on some of the detail of this, but just to say that the integrated care fund isn't the only way of doing this and that we've been having a cross-Government working group for some time now about how to take social care…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, so, it's not my job to stimulate the private sector housing market. That's generally as febrile as it's possible to get all by itself. So, what we do is we try to fill in the edges, if you like. We've got several grants that are aimed at owner-occupiers…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, for sure. So, there's no—. We haven't got the financial transactions budgets available until the final budget, so you can't see those in the draft budget as you're currently looking at it; that's an ongoing discussion between us and the centre and also…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, we haven't got it in place yet, because we haven't got the company in place yet. But, as part of the discussion, of course what we're doing is making sure that we get value for money out of it. The amount of money that we've allocated to it is based on…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Unnos, yes.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes. So, the materials and components index for September 2021 indicated materials costs rose by 22 per cent compared to September 2020, and that's the same in October's index. So, basically, the grant on each home was £75,000, and it's risen to around…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, the 20,000 low-carbon social homes is calibrated against what we know about people currently in temporary accommodation and so on. Obviously, Sam, we'd like to build as many as we possibly can. So, 20,000 is our target; if we can get it up above that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, just to explain, Chair, we've been able to use public health legislation in order to extend help and support to people with no recourse to public funds on the grounds of the public health emergency. Once the public health emergency is no longer with us…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Certainly, Chair, we'll write to you when we've had a look at that, but the monthly breakdowns from LAs on temporary accommodation, we don't have a demographic breakdown of that. We've only got numbers. But we'll certainly have a look to see where that's come…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
We're using the information that we've got from the hardship fund and the call—. So, that was a call-off contract. So, we're using that to understand what the allocations should look like going forward. So, obviously, we know what the homelessness figures…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
So, there's been a hardship fund, as I'm sure Members are aware, going through the pandemic. Going forward now, as we all fervently hope that we're seeing the ending of the pandemic soon, we'll be giving £10 million to councils to make sure that we enable…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Carolyn. This is something that's been very dear to my heart ever since I became the housing Minister. We've been working very closely with the sector to understand what the prevention agenda looks like as well as the acute end of making sure that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
For sure, Chair, we work with our RSL partners and our council partners to make sure that tenants going into new low-carbon social housing, for example, are doing so into housing that's fit for them, fit for purpose. Sometimes there's tech that they have to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes, we have got some data gaps, for sure, certainly with certain people with protected characteristics, lower numbers in particular groups and so on, particularly in homelessness, for example. So, during the course of the pandemic, when there have been lags…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Yes. So, the strategic integrated impact assessment for the budget is done overall at the centre of the Welsh Government; it's not done in each portfolio. But, in preparing the draft budget, my officials obviously prepared a detailed analysis of the budget…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23: Evidence session 3 - Minister for Climate Change
Bore da, pawb. Thank you very much, Chair, for that. Yes, of course, the well-being of future generations is absolutely central to what we're doing in the housing and regeneration part of the climate change portfolio for a range of reasons that have affected…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Absolutely, we are working very hard to make sure that everything we do with NRW joins up. We've had some really good meetings with the leadership teams there about doing exactly that, and Lee may want to come in and talk about—. So, this goes back to what we…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Well, as are we all. Yet again, like-for-like money has not been provided, so we are where we are. We obviously continue to make representations at a UK level about making sure that these funds are there—they aren't there yet. At the moment, we are very…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2022-23 - session 2
Yes. So, there's a £3 million total budget in there for the delivery of the new national park. That's additional to the original baseline MEG.
