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The Landfill Disposals Tax (Tax Rates) (Amendment) and Tax Collection and Management (Wales) Act 2016 (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Diolch, Llywydd. The Senedd is asked to approve these regulations relating to the landfill disposals tax. The draft regulations have two objectives: firstly, to increase the standard, lower and unauthorised disposal rates for landfill disposals tax to apply…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
So, Sam, I take the point you're making, and if we'd started with a blank sheet of paper, we wouldn't have started where we were, so we would have put, obviously, the national plan in first, then the regional plan, then the LDP signing off at the bottom of…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
Thank you very much, Mike. So, just addressing that last one first, and I know your long-term interest in bringing many of the old chapels and churches in Wales back into beneficial use, we have started a conversation with Cadw about, again, patterns for what…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
Diolch, Mabon. There's much to agree with you about there. It's good to hear the updated statistics; we wait for ours to be authenticated, but I've had them anecdotally—is that the right word—so it looks like it's travelling in the right direction. I think…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
Thank you, Janet. That's quite a long list of things, and I think you've got a bit confused about some of the terms that you were using there. The £17 million that's been raised isn't just to build affordable homes; it's £17 million that goes into the coffers…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
More broadly, we continue to investigate whether changes to the higher residential rates of land transaction tax could help advantage people buying homes for permanent occupation. We will continue to engage with local authorities to explore how increased LTT…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Second Homes and Affordability
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I am pleased today to provide an update on developments to address the large numbers of second homes and short-term lets in many communities and also the work of the Dwyfor pilot. This work takes forward our commitments in the…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
Thanks, Sioned. I don't want to just say 'no' to that, because I understand exactly where you're coming from, but I'm a little bit ambivalent about interim targets at this point in the programme, if I'm honest. So, what we'd very much like to see is the first…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
Yes, that's an interesting point, isn't it? So, just to be clear, the procurement was very specific about installing the right tech in the right home, and you had to have capability to install the right tech in the right home, you had to understand and…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
Yes, thanks, Mabon. I don't disagree at all with your analysis of what happens if you live in a cold home—obviously that's why we are putting the programme in place—and nor do I disagree with your analysis that many of our homes are the worst. In fact, I said…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
Thanks, Mark. So, I'm just turning to the first issue. I did say in my statement that we had three tranches in the new programme, so just to reiterate, we've got advice and referral services provided by the Energy Saving Trust, so that's how people will get…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: The Warm Homes Programme
Diolch, Llywydd. This Senedd has rightly expressed a great deal of interest in the new Warm Homes programme. I'm pleased to confirm it will go live on 1 April with advice and referral services provided by Energy Savings Trust and installation services…
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Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Well, I emphasise it's a personal view.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
For sure, Alun, but I or whoever the Minister is at the time has to bid for the time in the Government programme, you have to bid for the resources in the Government programme, you have to compete with everybody else who's also trying to get their cherished…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
For me, I think it’s a matter of regret that we cannot get enough scrutiny into Bills passed at the UK level that affect Wales. It’s genuinely a matter of regret. We try very hard to do that, so if at all possible—and not for the officials on this call—we try…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
No, I don't think we have that. As I’ve repeatedly said, I think we could probably argue that you can’t do it already in Wales. It’s just this states it beyond doubt, and out of the arguable zone, if you like. So, I’d be relatively disappointed if I did have…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
It's a consideration we always have to take into account, and it's a resource issue as well; the laying of an LCM isn't resource free. You're diverting somebody from the analysis in order to write the LCM provisions. So, there's always a weigh-up, isn't…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
And I will say it's the rapidity with which the amendments have been put in. We've had very little notice of these amendments, really. So, they've had to be worked through in extremely rapid time in order to be able to get where we are.
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
As I think I already said, there were 176 amendments to be gone through, not just these. And so we wanted to be very sure that we didn't need an LCM for any of the other amendments, and obviously it takes a little bit of time to go through those amendments…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
That's what I said to you about the difference between the Act coming into force and the commencement provisions. Landlords have to write a variation notice for their contract holders, and so we will consider the time period between the Act passing and the…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
I've absolutely no idea. Gareth, are you able to answer that?
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Obviously, I'm not in control of that process. As we've already discussed, I completely concur with the committee's view that better scrutiny would be better. If I'd been invited to appear in front of the committee there, I would have happily done so, for…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Yes. To be really clear, we obviously won't be retrospectively trying to prosecute anyone for something that wasn't in place by then. The retrospectivity is simply to apply these provisions, from the point in time that they become law, to existing contracts…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
What I would say is that rather than us do this from memory, because our memories may well be faulty in this regard, we'll go back and have a look through officials' notes and make sure that we get the timeline to you. It's perfectly possible I was asked…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Legislative Consent Memorandum on the Renters (Reform) Bill: Evidence Session
Not from my point of view; there may have been from an official point of view.
