, Plenary
Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution
4. What assessment has the Counsel General made of the implications for Wales of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill? OQ58493
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
Well, I'm pleased to hear that—that you've had a response, particularly in writing, on increasing the £350 support payment for UK host families for Ukrainian refugees. I know from my involvement with local groups in Ogmore and covering the Bridgend area how…
, Plenary
Questions to the Minister for Social Justice
1. What discussions has the Minister had with newly appointed UK Ministers regarding the Welsh Government’s ability to deliver on its social justice priorities? OQ58494
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Yes. Andy.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. I think we can take it as read, looking at the clock, that for enforcing minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rented sector, there is not capacity at the moment to do that. So, let's just take that as read. But can I ask you about the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
—on local authorities. All of this, pulling all this together, you've advocated for the idea of a one-stop stop within local authorities. We've heard from the previous session and we've heard from you as well, not the worries but the hard reality of the fact…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Chair, if you don't mind, I'll try and extend into the other area of questions briefly—
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay, thank you. Catherine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Thanks, Chair. We’ve touched on finance already, but I just want to give you the opportunity to talk about not only the existing financial mechanisms that are available to incentivise investment of this type within the private sector, but also potential…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Or installers or technology.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Yes, Chair, just to explore this tension that we have between the speed and the urgency of what we need to do, and bringing people along and trusting—as Delyth was saying, nudging people's behaviour. The question I have is: is Government trusted? Because this…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Okay. That's helpful to us.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
That's an argument against, as we saw in the previous session, a Domesday Book scenario where you map everything. This is an argument to say, 'Focus on what needs to be done and work your way through those.' It could be on a spatial level in certain…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 2
Yes, sorry, it's just going back a tiny little bit to the building passports. The issue of privacy and data protection and the rights of an individual to the data on their homes is a key one, I get that, but I'd say a point of principle is that we should…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, okay.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Thanks. I think there were murmurs of agreement around the committee here from all perspectives then on increasing the resource into local authorities, but, of course, we're doing it at the same time as we're expecting not to have any uplift in line with the…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Chris.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, indeed, very briefly, but just to say, and it's on my record of interests as well—I don't declare it routinely, because it's there on my record—I also am a private landlord. I have an inherited property, so it's a property that I own and rent from, but…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Don't worry, we'll take it up with the Minister.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. Thank you, Chris. I'm referring back to the letter that we had from the Minister here, which is very clear, but, clearly, things have moved on there, because, within that letter we've got: 'The group is tasked with developing a potential "offer" or…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. So, going forward, what are your aims with that group and what should we be expecting as a committee to hear from the outcomes of the deliberations you're now going to do?
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Only one question, I think, Chair. Chris, if I could ask you, the Minister's referred to us before the decarbonisation implementation group, which you are chairing. I was just wondering if you could give us an update on that, because we understand it was…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
That's helpful, because the low-hanging fruit—we're not quite clear yet where those low-hanging fruit are, which comes back to the data thing.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
It's just because this has been identified as the low-hanging fruit, could you just briefly describe the type of property that you're talking about? Are we talking about relatively recently built, reasonably well-insulated properties that have been built in…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
I just wanted to explore the response you gave to Delyth there on this issue of a hard cut-off date. If we did this in a different way—. We always seem to be running to catch up to where we want to be by 2030, and then by 2040 and 2050. If we did it the other…
