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Plaid Cymru Debate: Devolved powers and funding
Yes, formally.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
So, I know my colleague knows that water companies in Wales have a statutory duty to provide water, but there is no requirement to provide it for firefighting purposes—so, that would include the water for sprinklers—under the Water Act 2014. We would say…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
The Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning has not had any discussions with water companies regarding sprinkler installations in new homes.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I'm very grateful for the question, and actually it reminds me of the question that Peter Fox was asking earlier, very much in the same vein around skills. Social landlords can access the funding that is available through the optimised retrofit programme…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
We are removing barriers and building an enabling environment for everyone in Wales to reduce emissions from their homes, while targeting direct support towards low-income households, including our £70 million optimised retrofit programme and the £30 million…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I absolutely want to join you in recognising the important work that care and repair carries out, helping people to live independently in their homes for as long as possible, and we are absolutely committed to supporting that work. Care and repair agencies…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I think there are two important things that come into play here. Firstly, in that kind of placemaking approach, which I referred to in respect of the second question this afternoon, which related to how we ensure that our town centres are suitable and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Every new home that is built now with Welsh Government funding is built to the lifetime homes standard. Whilst that isn't a full wheelchair standard, it does ensure that homes are built with stairs that are capable of taking a stairlift and that there is more…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Every new home built with Welsh Government funding in Wales is built to the lifetime homes standard, ensuring that homes are accessible and convenient for all tenants and adaptable to long-term needs. It ensures dwellings are accessible for tenants of all…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
As I said in my previous answer, I know that it’s not the Cabinet Secretary’s approach at this point to review or indeed change the policy, and that is because of the very low number of developments that fall under this. OPD is not just about the development…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I know the Cabinet Secretary doesn’t intend to change the One Planet development policy at this time, and that’s due to the very small number of applications received. I understand that between April 2014 and 2019 local planning authorities provided data…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
The Welsh Government collected and monitored annual data on the number of One Planet developments approved and refused between 2011 and 2019 and published this information online each year. Analysis of the data has indicated that a review is not necessary at…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I know that the Minister is very keen to work across Government, particularly recognising the importance of skills and apprenticeships in this space, and that she does have regular conversations with the Minister for economy, particularly exploring how we can…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
We're looking to tackle this issue from both sides, in the sense of, in the first instance, preventing people from losing their homes, but then also trying to deliver more of those affordable homes at the other end. I did mention the £330 million that we're…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Access to a decent, affordable home to buy or rent remains an issue for too many people. This is why delivering 20,000 affordable social homes for rent remains our key commitment. Alongside this, we will continue to prioritise our efforts to prevent…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
So, we do have the programme for government commitment to support co-operative housing, community-led initiatives and community land trusts, and we have increased our funding through Cwmpas to £180,000 over the three years 2022-23 to 2024-25. Cwmpas is…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
We've been investing record levels of funding in the social housing grant to achieve that 20,000 homes target over the course of this Senedd term, and, of course, it's never the case that you build a certain number of homes in each year; it's always the case…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
We remain committed to delivering more homes to meet the needs of people throughout Wales. We have allocated £1.4 billion for social housing and, in the first two years of this Senedd term, successfully delivered 5,775 homes towards our 20,000 homes for rent…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I'm really sorry to colleagues, I don't have that date in front of me at the moment, but I will endeavour to get the date following questions this afternoon, then I will e-mail everybody later on this afternoon, Llywydd. I’m sorry I don’t have the date.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
As I mentioned in response to the previous question, we did have the legislative statement from the First Minister yesterday, setting out our immediate priorities in terms of legislation, and colleagues will be aware that over recent years we've had a swathe…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Thank you very much for the question, and I welcome you to your new role as the spokesperson. In terms of affordable housing, I do think that we'd always want to invest more funding in affordable housing, but we have, I think, invested quite significant…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Well, the First Minister set out our legislative programme in his statement yesterday. Of course, legislation is always important, but there are other things, I think, that don't require legislation in order to make progress. And I think that the contribution…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
Well, these are matters that fall to the Minister for climate change, but I am pleased to let colleagues know that the First Minister will be chairing a further summit on water quality, I believe, at the Royal Welsh Show. I know that there was significant…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
I don't believe these are in the portfolio of the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning. However, I will certainly explore that after today's meeting. I've been briefing myself to the eyeballs over many hours, but, unfortunately, this…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning
After you, Llywydd.
