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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Mark. The Welsh Government is delivering on housing for all tenures. We're providing record social housing funding of over £2 billion over this Senedd term, including £466 million in 2025-26 alone. We're projected to deliver our target of 20,000…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I was going to say, Llywydd, this isn't a bid for Transforming Towns money, is it? I hope. [Laughter.]
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
We shall all go and look, Llywydd.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Oh, fabulous. I will certainly look that one up. That's great to know that. Thank you for sharing that, Gareth. Absolutely, Transforming Towns has funded more than £14 million in Rhyl town centre, so that's really exciting. We do work closely with…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Carolyn. It's been a pleasure for me to visit Denbigh as well over the last year. I've seen that development—really exciting development—that's been happening. So, the renovation of the former post office building in Rhyl is being supported by…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Carolyn. Our Transforming Towns programme is supporting key investments in Rhyl, including the landmark redevelopment of the Queen’s Market. Placemaking plans have been developed, covering towns such as Corwen, Denbigh and Ruthin, focusing on driving…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Siân. Firstly, just to agree around the impact that the right to buy had here in Wales, and the fact that we did lose so many homes across Wales because of that. So, I'm glad that this Government was one that actually stopped the right to buy, and…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I think there is very much electioneering going on here. Despite the previous UK Government—that's a Tory Government—ending Help to Buy in England back in March 2023, we have provided an extra £57 million to extend our Help to Buy—Wales scheme, which has…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Sam. The Welsh Government provides a number of routes into home ownership and other affordable housing, including through Help to Buy—Wales, Homebuy—Wales, Shared Ownership—Wales and our record investment in social housing. Since its launch, Help to…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Sam. Well, the local growth fund has stronger economic growth objectives than the shared prosperity fund, so capital investment remains essential in dealing with Wales’s long‑term productivity challenges and as aligned with our fund’s main objective…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Luke. I meet regularly with the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning, and we have discussed the arrangements for the local growth fund, including the implications of that capital-revenue split that we have received from the UK…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Luke. The local growth fund for Wales has been discussed across Government, including at Cabinet.
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Joel. The setting of budgets and, in turn, council taxes is the responsibility of each local authority, and each local authority needs to take account of the full range of sources of funding available to them, as well as the pressures they face in…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Joel. Just to say, I do urge anyone struggling with their council tax to get in contact with their local council or Citizens Advice. It's very important that people do that without delay. We are also committed to keeping the council tax reduction…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Joel. And I feel now, Llywydd, that I won't say anything like a long goodbye here to Joel either. I just wanted to answer Joel's question around the local government funding settlement. As you know, we've published that, and, as a result of the…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Peredur. Firstly, I'd just like to say that I have really enjoyed your contributions and our discussions at these times. It's been really good to be back in this Chamber—it's like when we started, and now we've come back. But it's really good to have…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Peredur. I think some of these questions are particularly placed for my Cabinet colleague. I know, as I say, you've paid particular attention to it, but the pledge has been made and there's a lot of work that goes on behind that. But I very much…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you, Peredur. I'm glad to see you paid some attention to the announcement at the launch in Newport earlier this week—the Welsh Labour pledges launch. Obviously, the First Minister and the leader of the Labour Party in Wales was able to outline some of…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, James. As you rightly say, there are a number of levers that sit outside of the portfolio, and that was one of the points around the affordable homes taskforce and some of the recommendations that they've made. It touches on a number of Ministers'…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Thank you, James. We are providing record social housing funding of over £2 billion over this Senedd term, including £466 million in 2025-26 alone. During this term of government, as at 2024-25, Powys has received almost £68 million in social housing grant…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
Diolch, Lesley, and, absolutely, I think seeing the progress in Wrexham first-hand really demonstrates the real difference our investment is making to people's lives and the communities they live in. As you mentioned, I was really fortunate to go and visit…
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Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government
I am committed to supporting our town and city centres, and, through our Transforming Towns programme, I'm investing over £22 million in Wrexham city centre. This investment is making a real difference, supporting a range of projects, breathing new life into…
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Group 9: Progress reports on bringing the Act into force (Amendment 53)
Diolch, Llywydd. I'm grateful to Siân Gwenllian for amendment 53, which seeks to introduce a specific statutory duty for Welsh Ministers to report on progress in bringing the Bill into force and specifying any further steps to bring the Bill fully into force…
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Group 8: Leases and occupation contracts (Amendments 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 38)
Move.
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Group 8: Leases and occupation contracts (Amendments 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 38)
Move.
