, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
I don't know, Serena, if you want to comment on any of those points at all.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Can I just come back on that point? I absolutely understand that, and I always try to use the phrase 'appropriate housing' rather than 'affordable housing', because affordability is a factor, certainly, but appropriateness of housing is really important…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
I will go into the area I should be fishing around in, which is around supply and affordability. In much of what's been said so far, the word 'supply' has been mentioned. Are we looking at solutions often that aren't actually looking to address the real…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Anything further, David, perhaps, from you?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: evidence session 3
Thanks, Chair. I want to ask some questions about supply, quality and affordability. But before I do, on this issue of vision, if I may, Chair, is there a risk in us just talking about the private rented sector in isolation, because it's so intrinsically…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
It's just building on the role of landlords supporting those tenants. Because we have heard already about some private landlords specialising in accommodating tenants who are perhaps homeless or have some specific support needs. We mentioned some of the…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
I had one more short question.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Thanks. Chair, if I may just move on a little. Jim, you touched on this in your comment a moment ago about reputation, and trying to encourage and support landlords as well. Do you think more can be done to support landlords to manage anti-social behaviour or…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
But are there houses for landlords to get hold of? Whether the business case stacks up or not, are the properties there?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Thank you. I can't see anybody else's hand wanting to come in there. Just more broadly on supply and demand, you've touched specifically there on some of these big institutional investment-type ideas or projects. Are there any more interventions, do you…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Can I just jump in, Henry? There are two stages to risk there, isn't there? There's the post-build risk, which is managing tenants and perhaps some of the issues you raise there. The pre-build risk: do you think there's a role for Government to play in terms…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Yes, thanks, Chair, and, as the chairman just said, just building on that point on the build-to-rent market, I was just wondering if any of you would have a view on whether more could be done to stimulate the institutional investment to enable more build to…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Just on that point. Thank you for the response, Bethan. On the point around going too far, what do you mean by that? Is that the number of rental properties, or the role of landlords? What is it that's gone too far, sorry?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 2
Can I have a quick question on that, Chair?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
Yes. It was just on the issue of regulation and I was just reflecting on the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016. I know a number of witnesses have called for further regulation in a number of areas. It doesn't seem as though the regulation that was brought in in…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
It seems like a bad connection there, Chair.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
Yes, if I may, and, obviously, if anybody else wants to come back further on that issue around the mix and the scale of those landlords. Finally on this issue, are there any particular Government interventions—? Bob just mentioned an example of one there at a…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
Thanks, Chair. Thanks for those responses, I didn't mean to make things far too simplistic; I'm just trying to get to the nub of some of these issues. I think Bob mentioned a moment ago the different types of landlords we have in terms of scale—some with…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
Could I perhaps, before other witnesses contribute on this, just ask a straightforward question on the supply and demand issue? There was reference made earlier to where the power lies in terms of that relationship between tenant and landlord. I suspect that…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Private rented sector: Evidence session 1
Thanks, Chair. Good morning, everybody. I really appreciate you joining us this morning. I just want to touch on—it was mentioned in the previous discussions—some of the issues around supply and demand. I'm just wondering what you think the major factors…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
Janet, I'm not sure if this is your point to declare an interest.
, Plenary
Welsh Conservatives Debate: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Will you take a brief intervention? You made lots of very valid points there, but I was just wondering what part of removing potentially 20 per cent of productive land will actually help to deal with those issues that you've raised.
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
Thank you for your response, Minister. And as we've already heard today, and seen today, just outside this place there have been thousands of farmers standing up for their communities, their farms and their very way of life. They see the current proposals in…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd
4. Will the Minister provide an update on the expected impact of the rollout of the sustainable farming scheme on farmers in North Wales? OQ60724
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Finance and Local Government
Thank you, Minister. I'll look forward to, perhaps, a further response in the future, although, as you say, there is a financial responsibility in particular, and there may even be structural opportunities within the way some of this is set up as well, which…
