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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
Certainly, Jane. It was a pleasure to meet with you and the group that you brought with you. I've been meeting with a number of groups—with Mike and others—for a very long time now. What we're wanting to ensure is that those groups of people who haven't…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
Thank you, Mike. You know I've met with a number of the residents and yourself in the buildings affected in your constituency, and we're very anxious that those residents who've done the right thing are properly looked after in this scheme as well, so that's…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
I completely agree with your exposition on the subject. It is slightly more complicated, however. When Sue Essex was doing her piece of work, one of the areas that we were looking at was commonhold and the Scottish system, but actually the building safety…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
Thank you, Janet. I think I actually answered all your questions in my statement. But just to reiterate, if anyone thinks that their management company, or the management arrangements for their building—because there's a huge range of complex ways of managing…
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Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Building Safety
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd, for the opportunity to update Members on our action to tackle what is a complex and sensitive issue. Members will know that I am committed to addressing building safety in Wales and continue to take forward our…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
The Conservative Government should give us the consequential from HS2.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
You pointed out that it was not part of your job, and I was pointing out that that was hilarious. Our transport strategy, 'Llwybr Newydd', sets out the path that we need to take, but implementation of that strategy requires fair funding from the UK…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Yes, you said it wasn't part of your job, and I'm pointing out that that's hilarious.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Yes, of course.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
—requires fair funding from the UK Government.
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Diolch, Llywydd. I can’t resist saying that it’s a shame for Janet that the people of Wales keep re-electing the Welsh Labour Government. A fact that she seems to always pass by. Llywydd, I welcome the opportunity to respond to this debate. Although, in a…
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Welsh Conservatives Debate: The transport network
Formally.
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Annual Report on Natural Resources Wales
We expect that baseline review, the SLA part of that baseline review, to conclude before the end of this calendar year, just to be clear—so, not financial year. And then, we will be working with NRW to look at your recommendation 4, 'ensure that funding for…
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Debate on the Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure Committee Report: Annual Report on Natural Resources Wales
Diolch. I'd very much like to start by thanking the committee for preparing this comprehensive report, which they published on 23 March, and for giving me the opportunity to respond to it. I acknowledge the conclusions made within the report, and note the…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Peter. The national flood strategy sets out how we will manage the risk over the next decade, and underlines the importance we place on tackling flood risk and the growing impacts of climate change. This year, in conjunction with Plaid Cymru as…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Peter. The programme for government commits us to reducing flood risk for over 45,000 homes over the lifetime of this administration. This year we are investing over £71 million through local authorities and Natural Resources Wales. This is the…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, absolutely, and this is a very difficult problem as the world changes around us. And so it's quite clear, isn't it, that many of us no longer shop in or go to town centres in the way that we used to in order to get ordinary goods and services. So, our…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Diolch. We have invested over £53.7 million in more than 100 projects that support the delivery of broader town-centre placemaking plans. We continue to invest and work in partnership with all sectors to make our towns and cities even better places to live…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, there is a specialist insurance scheme, which I’m sure the Member is aware of, called Flood Re, which allows people who have properties in flood-risk areas—and I appreciate that it’s even more frustrating if they haven't actually been flooded—to obtain…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you. Our funding objectives to reduce flood risk to communities are set out in our national flood strategy and the programme for government. This year, we announced a record level of investment of more than £214 million over the next three years to help…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes, so, I write to planning authorities all the time reinforcing various parts of ‘Planning Policy Wales’. We also have a planning officers forum and I’m very shortly to meet—I’m afraid I just can’t remember off the top of my head when—with the new cabinet…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Thank you, Darren. Placemaking principles underpin national planning policy. They require the provision of adequate infrastructure to support housing development and the promotion of quality places. Local planning authorities must take a strategic approach to…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
Yes. The very short answer to that is 'yes'. It's very much part of the optimised retrofit programme and the innovative housing programme. What those programmes do is they take a whole series of products and we build housing—new housing for the IHP and…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
So, obviously, there's a complex series of calculations around carbon and carbon sequestration for a variety of different products. I can't pretend to be an expert in that, but we have a number of people advising us, including on the deep-dive panels and so…
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Questions to the Minister for Climate Change
I'm very much on board with that, Jenny. We have a national plan system in Wales—a planned system that allows us to have a robust framework for ensuring agricultural land is protected for productive use through 'Planning Policy Wales' and 'Future Wales: the…
