, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 1
Thank you. I just want to extend that theme, really, and how the Welsh language education delivery plan can play a role in making sure that there is that consultation around public acceptability as schools move along the continuum between one language…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I'm done.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Well, I'm sure we'll make some recommendations. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. I just wonder if there's a parallel with some of the town-centre development work and the help for local authorities with compulsory purchase advice, given that that capacity's been denuded in local authorities. I wonder whether there's a read-across…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Well, I think we're likely to make some recommendations on this in our report, so it would be good if some thought can be put into this when responding to our report. Just on the issue of section 106 and how additional help can be given to local…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Sure. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding this, but, by the time it gets to the planning system, as you say, the options are complex, so surely a strategic approach would be thinking about this before it gets to the planning system. So, when planning the south…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thanks. I just want to focus on land, briefly. The evidence that you submitted is pretty curt on the potential for maximizing the uplift in land values from public sector development. We’ve heard evidence about the potential that the metro has for the Welsh…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Did you—? Do you want to add to that?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Just to ask specifically on the social housing grant and the foundational economy, I know there's some good work taking place within the Welsh Government; there's a secondment into the Welsh Government to try and marshal around new build in particular, the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay, so that's the Welsh Government being reactive. But are you proactively looking, with local authorities, at how you can sweep up some of these properties that have been put on the market?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
—drive second home owners out of the market and create capacity for locals.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Surely it's not unexpected. We've introduced an extra tool to—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
That’s a general answer, and that’s good in general, but, specifically about these areas where we have been targeting additional measures to deal with second homes, people are putting their houses on the market, and there’s an opportunity there to step in. Is…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Can I just touch on the issue of acquisitions, particularly in areas of shortage? So, we’ve seen the trial of increasing council tax in areas with high levels of second homes, and we read that there is now a glut of property on the market in some of those…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Okay. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I take your point that an annual survey may not be terribly revealing. Is there a cycle that would be more instructive—every three years, every four years?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
One million pounds to £2 million sounds like a lot of money, but in the scale of the amount of spend on housing, it's a very small amount. Do you have a rough scale of how much you spend on monitoring and evaluation? Because I don't really see how we can…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Could I just come in there?
, Plenary
Statement by the First Minister: Tata Steel
Diolch, Llywydd. First Minister, there's no disguising the fact that the closure of the blast furnace is a disaster for the Welsh economy and no package can compensate for that. It is a disaster. Those who engaged with the management of Tata in the UK have…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Thank you, First Minister. Putting aside the planning issues, this project—Cardiff parkway—was initially proposed to be entirely led by the private sector, and a new railway station funded by the private sector. My understanding is that the last costs were at…
, Plenary
Nomination of the First Minister under Standing Order 8
Eluned Morgan.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Paper(s) to note
I agree with that.
, Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Ministerial scrutiny: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Culture and Social Justice
Thank you.
