, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
One of the things we're really good at in Wales is layering lots and lots of different groups of people and calling them something slightly different, and then when you go and look at that group, it's absolutely the same group of people who are also called…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
What we're trying to do is we're trying to make sure—. It's what the health service would call the 'no wrong door' approach. If you speak about the mental health services, for example, what we're trying to do is make sure the public services that come into…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Sure. So, some of them are because we're doing a sequential series of things in housing. So, some of the things on rents, for example, are part of the Green Paper-White Paper-subsequent Bill arrangement that we have. We want the homelessness Bill to be as…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
In the next Senedd year, basically. We can provide the committee with a backward timetable that doesn't have an end date on it, but it is always very surprising how long the genesis of a Bill actually is. So, people say, 'Bring that forward more quickly', and…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Yes, certainly. So, we have a White Paper that's just gone out. I was very pleased indeed to launch that on World Homeless Day in the Senedd; I know you were all there. Obviously, we're going to go through the White Paper process to get all of the comments…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Morning.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Yes. Obviously, you have to register. If we found that you were letting out your property and you weren't registered, then that would have severe consequences. We obviously do a lot of publicity about the fact that you need to register and so on. We're doing…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Three hundred and 70 responses to that, so they're in analysis at the moment. Because that's exactly what we're trying to do—we're trying to take the sector with us in establishing a system of affordability, if you like. And I just want to emphasise…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Yes. So, I'm sure the committee knows we've put a Green Paper out very recently. That Green Paper was to give us an evidence base to inform the proposals in a forthcoming White Paper, which is part of the co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru. We needed to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Well, it's completely essential. We wouldn't be able to house 20-odd per cent of our population if we didn't have the PRS. It's an interesting sector, really, because we always hear about the churn end of it; we always hear about people trying to get into…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
Yes. We have a perfectly good working relationship with the National Residential Landlords Association and, obviously, we meet with them. They're part of our stakeholder groups. We have a range of stakeholders on the groups, which include both landlords…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Ministerial scrutiny session: Minister for Climate Change
I'll let them introduce themselves. We'll start with you, Emma.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Water quality
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I'm very pleased to be able to respond to the debate today. There are indeed an important set of challenges around storm overflows, but sadly the motion fails to recognise they cannot be separated from the wider issues of waste water…
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Water quality
Formally.
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Help to Stay
Diolch, Mabon. I completely agree with that last set of remarks. This is part of a suite of policies, as you've rightly said, many of which we've been working on together as part of the co-operation agreement. It's not in any way intended to be a substitute…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Help to Stay
Well, thank you, Janet, for reading out the UK Government's alleged help. As I'm sure you noticed when you were reading it out, all it amounts to is asking your lender to either extend your loan or to help you get an even more expensive one. I mean, that's…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Help to Stay
Detailed discussions about the mortgage market as part of the co-operation agreement commitment to explore local mortgage support have contributed to our understanding of the gaps in the market and where we can target support. Now we have an opportunity to…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Help to Stay
Diolch, Llywydd. Thank you very much for the opportunity to provide an update on the Help to Stay Wales mortgage support scheme. The current economic background presents many challenges. The cumulative impact of the significant rise in fuel cost, high…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
As Claire very tactfully said, discussions are ongoing.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Well, I guess, Jenny, I would say that we can embrace our own, but we're part of the UK, and some of the things that happen in Wales are not things that we control, so we don't site large gas-fired power stations, for example, and we don't control some of the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Well, Chair, I'm going to defer to Claire here, I'm afraid, because this is intensely detailed, and her officials have been working on it for us.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Yes, absolutely, Joyce. So, we've asked the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales to look at prevention as well as the committee, which also looks at prevention. I'm sure you heard me say as part of the new Welsh housing quality standard yesterday that…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Yes, so we've got good work going on with our risk management authorities across Wales. Last year we agreed a three-year capital budget, which is £101 million for them, and that plans our investment from 2022-23 to 2024-25 across the three years. We needed to…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Yes, so I've responded already to the resources and skills report that the committee put out. We acknowledged the extensive list of issues and challenges, and we've asked the committee to do some key areas of significant work on some of the areas that they…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
General scrutiny of the Minister for Climate Change: part 2
Yes, absolutely, Janet. So, the review that we commissioned with the co-operation agreement was an important part of a jigsaw where we're looking at wider flood-risk management reporting. So, we've got two other pieces of work taking place: we've got the…
