, 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…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
No, no, that's fine.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Okay. It also shows the scale.
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Because the challenge for me seems to be, from what we've had in written evidence, and what you're saying, that this is almost like a doomsday book experience—every private property being assessed in the country. We're looking at the figures of the number of…
, Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Decarbonising the private housing sector - evidence session 1
Yes, just to ask what's been the experience of other countries where they've used building passports. In terms of the speed at which they've been able to do the assessments, have they taken a decade and more to do this, or do we know there are countries where…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Biodiversity
Listen, I'm going to rattle through some very quick things. First of all, well done on this and well done to the people who put this together with the biodiversity deep-dive. This is significant—every word in this statement carries us on a significant way…
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Climate Change: Biodiversity
I'm looking forward to the wolves in Singleton park, Mike. [Laughter.]
, Plenary
Statement by the Minister for Education and Welsh Language: The Cymraeg 2050 Annual Report 2021-22
Thank you, Dirprwy Lywydd, and I agree with my friend and colleague Alun Davies in terms of the tone and the message. Minister, I welcome the statement today and the continuing efforts of the Welsh Government to create a living language in Wales that is part…
, Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee
Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
That brings us to item 6, a motion under Standing Order 17.42 resolving to exclude the public for the remainder of the meeting. Are we happy to do so, colleagues? We are, so we'll move into private and we'll just wait for the confirmation from our clerks that…
