, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Okay. I'm just interested in the way that the Act is being quoted there, because that does raise some questions about the consistency of the way the Act's being used, because it does seem local authorities are using it when it suits them.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Specifically, they're using the future generations Act as cover to do that.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Really?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 10
Just very briefly, I was fascinated by your example of the housing officer using the future generations Act. That's a very unusual way for the future generations Act to have been prayed in aid. I just wondered, Chair, if we could have just a note or just some…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Sorry. I think you mentioned that Denmark relies on bonds. Are you still finding that, even with longer term public-backed debt, there's a reluctance to leverage that because of the financial instability, or does that provide a greater level of assurance?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
I think you mentioned the—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay. Thank you. Can I just ask, in terms of the appetite of authorities to borrow, we've had some evidence that the impact of inflation and the volatility of interest rates are discouraging housing co-operations even more from being willing to borrow. Is…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes, we can hear you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Yes, that's right.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Okay, I'll keep trying. I wanted to ask about cost-based social housing and what contribution that makes, and also, if you could as well, a little on the role that private finance plays, because our social housing in Wales tends to be largely funded through…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Can you hear me now? Can you hear me?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
I was asking—. I wanted to find out more about what's referred to as—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 9
Thank you. Just two very quick questions, really. Factual ones. If you can you tell us a little bit about what's been referred to as cost-based social housing and the role that plays, and also—
, Plenary
Group 15: Disqualification from being a Member of Senedd Cymru—offence of deception (Amendments 43, 6, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 25)
I think the debates we've had on this issue have been a good example of the parliamentary process in action and the consensual way that we can work across party lines in this Senedd. There is now a consensus across the Chamber that deliberate lying undermines…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Community Energy Benefits bill
—ice in Antarctica is progressing at a rate that is far faster than we anticipated. So, yes, there will be a need to bring communities along with us, but by delaying action against climate change we will be putting those communities in a far greater level of…
, Plenary
Debate on a Member's Legislative Proposal: A Community Energy Benefits bill
I just want to make a brief intervention to underline my support for the principles behind the motion today. Clearly, we want more than chicken feed and we want to learn the lessons of the past where the extractive model does Wales harm. Clearly, our…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Papers to note
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, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Okay, fair enough.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
You've mentioned the importance of aggregating, and we've talked about the land unit. Do you have any experience, any views, of Ystadau Cymru, which is the umbrella body for all the different bits of the public sector to co-ordinate their work on land? It's…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
The Welsh Government's borrowing powers are quite limited. Local authorities have much more flexibility, I think. But that's an interesting suggestion. Thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
I guess social landlords working with local authorities to access their borrowing powers as well could be a more efficient way of doing it.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Sure, but in order to meet your ambitions you set out, you say we should be more ambitious. If you are going to take that dynamic out of the mix, then you need to source alternative finance—if you wanted to build more. So, do you have suggestions on…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you for your thoughts on that. Wendy, just finally from me, just to ask you to expand on something in your written evidence, the fact you think it's unfair that tenants are having their rental income used in order to fund the building of new…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Okay. Thank you. And, Wendy, in your—
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 2
Do you think that can be done effectively within the Welsh Government? Because, before the land agency, some time ago, the Land Authority for Wales looked at sites and then there was Tai Cymru and others. Do you think the current model is right?
