Meeting Venue:
Committee Room 5
Meeting date: Thursday, 19 January 2023
Meeting time: 09.10
This meeting can be
viewed
on Senedd TV at:
http://senedd.tv/en/13182
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Category |
Names |
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Members of the Senedd: |
John Griffiths MS (Chair) Mabon ap Gwynfor MS Jayne Bryant MS Joel James MS Sam Rowlands MS Carolyn Thomas MS |
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Witnesses: |
Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change Dean Medcraft, Welsh Government Emma Williams, Welsh Government |
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Committee Staff: |
Manon George (Clerk) Catherine Hunt (Second Clerk) Chloe Davies (Deputy Clerk) Jonathan Baxter (Researcher) |
1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
1.1 The Chair welcomed Members to the meeting of the Local Government and Housing Committee.
1.2 There were no apologies, substitutions or declarations of interest.
2 Scrutiny of the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023 - 24 - evidence session 3: Minister for Climate Change
2.1 The Committee took evidence from:
Julie James MS, Minister for Climate Change
Emma Williams, Director of Housing and Regeneration, Welsh Government
Dean Medcraft, Director, Finance & Operations, Welsh Government
2.2 The Minister agreed to provide an analysis of the interventions made as part of the second homes pilot, when this is available.
3 Papers to note
3.1 Correspondence between the Committee and Business Committee - Legislative consent memoranda
3.1.a The Committee noted the correspondence in relation to legislative consent memoranda.
3.2 Letter from the Minister for Climate Change - update on implementing recommendations of the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee on Empty Properties
3.2.a The Committee noted the letter from the Minister for Climate Change in relation to implementing recommendations of the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee on Empty Properties.
3.3 Joint letter from Cymorth Cymru and Community Housing Cymru to the Minister for Finance and Local Government in relation to the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24
3.3.a The Committee noted the letter from Cymorth Cymru and Community Housing Cymru to the Minister for Finance and Local Government in relation to the Welsh Government Draft Budget 2023-24.
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and from the next Committee meeting
4.1. The Committee agreed the Motion to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting and from the meeting on 31 January 2023.
5 Consideration of evidence received under item 2
5.1. The Committee considered the evidence received.
6 Consideration of the draft report on the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill LCM
6.1. The Committee agreed the draft report.
7 Update on the forward work programme
7.1. The Committee agreed its forward work programme for the spring and summer 2023 terms.
8 Update on work relating to empty properties
8.1. The Committee received an update on work relating to empty properties.
9 Update on housing Ukrainian refugees
9.1. The Committee received an update on housing Ukrainian refugees.