, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for North Wales and Transport: D-day and Armed Forces Week
I'd like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for your statement this afternoon and outlining the Welsh Government's contribution to our armed forces community across Wales. I want to join with you and my group in your commitment, and our commitment, to veterans…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
First Minister, there is a worrying lack of accessibility when it comes to reporting pollution instances to Natural Resources Wales. Numerous constituents have contacted me about difficulty in reaching their enforcement teams, especially via the phone, with…
, Plenary
90-second Statements
Eighty years ago, on 6 June 1944, during D-day, the largest amphibious invasion in military history took place. Welsh servicemen and women played a critical role in the liberation of Europe from Nazi tyranny. Over 150,000 troops, including countless Welsh…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
Diolch, Cabinet Secretary, for your answer. In those statistics, it did state that 28 per cent of Wales is economically inactive. Now, that's a huge figure and a number of people out of work. Cabinet Secretary, I'm not interested in a game of political…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language
4. Will the Cabinet Secretary make a statement on the latest labour market statistics for Wales published by the ONS in May? OQ61202
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 4
As we're short on time, Cadeirydd, I'm happy if we write to the witnesses on the other points.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 4
I think Rosie wants to come in.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 4
Does anybody else want to have a punt? Because we're very short on time, I don't—. Emily.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 4
Diolch, Cadeirydd. I know that we're exceptionally short on time now, so my questions will be pointed to a few individuals, if that's okay. My first question will be to Jim, because I think it's fair if it goes to the WLGA. Research from the Home Builders…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
No, it's fine. It's fine.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
Yes. Okay. I'm going to finish here, Cadeirydd, in the interests of time.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
How do you think there's a way of helping developers as well? Because a lot of developers—. I'm sure other Members around this table have had developers come to them, and say, 'Oh, if this 106 element is put on me, I'm going to pull out of the whole site…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
I can indeed move on. I want to talk about land in general now, but I was going to ask you about guiding principles for—. I know we're a bit short on time now, but I've got a couple of questions to ask about the guiding principles that Welsh Government should…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
Yes, land with planning permission.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
Yes. Do you think sometimes Welsh Government need to be a bit harder on some developers as well? We've got our local development plans across the country, and when I was a cabinet member for planning I saw developments come back round in two different…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
A deep-down capitalist. [Laughter.]
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
That's fine. You're doing very well, Carolyn.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
That's good, thank you.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
Just on modular homes, I'm a big believer in modular homes, but one thing I'm interested in is how—we're going to move on to finance, but how the financing of that actually works, because it's not classed as a standard method of construction. So, I'm…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
Do you find sometimes that Government don't, perhaps, see the practicalities of some of it? It's very easy, when you're sat in Cathays, to come up with these lovely ideas of how we're going to do things, but actually the delivery and the practicalities of it…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
And getting them both means compromise, doesn't it, and sometimes—. Do you find—? Sorry, John, to cut back across.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
It's whether you want houses now or whether you want houses in 10 years' time.
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
It's a trade-off, isn't it?
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
On acquisitions, I've said before that I was cabinet member for housing in Powys, and I was always very keen on acquisitions. Bringing ex-council homes back into the stock, I thought, was a very good thing. But one thing that I always felt was a bit of an…
, Local Government and Housing Committee
Social housing supply: Evidence session 3
On that point on the arm's-length body, are we going back to the future with things like the Development Board for Rural Wales—that type of thing where you had a development board—or the Welsh Development Agency? Is that the sort of thing that you're talking…
