Agenda - Local Government and Housing Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4, Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: 18 September 2025

Meeting time: 09.15
For further information contact:

Manon George

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddHousing@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.00 - 09.15

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Public meeting

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.15

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2 Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

09.15 - 10.45 (Pages 1 - 31)

Jayne Bryant MS, Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government, Welsh Government

Sarah Rhodes, Deputy Director Housing Policy, Welsh Government

Hannah Fisher, Head of Homelessness Prevention Legislation, Welsh Government

Julie Stokes, Lawyer, Welsh Government

Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

Explanatory Memorandum

Statement of Policy Intent

Attached Documents:
Research brief

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3 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 (XI) to resolve to exclude the public from item 4 and 8 of today's meeting

10.45

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Break

10.45 - 10.55

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Private meeting

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4 Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill: Consideration of key issues

10.55 - 12.25

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Break

12.25 - 13.10

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Public meeting

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5 Building Safety Remediation

13.10 - 13.55

Rob Nicholls, Welsh Cladiators

Geoff Spight, Welsh Cladiators

Mark Thomas, Welsh Cladiators

Peter Larwood, Welsh Cladiators

Marc Harries, Welsh Cladiators

Cara, Leaseholder

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Break

13.55 - 14.00

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6 Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Evidence session 2

14.00 - 14.45 (Pages 32 - 54)

Rob Nicholls, Welsh Cladiators

Geoff Spight, Welsh Cladiators

Mark Thomas, Welsh Cladiators

Peter Larwood, Welsh Cladiators

Marc Harries, Welsh Cladiators

Attached Documents:
Research brief

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7 Papers to note

14.45

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7.1 Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

(Pages 55 - 62)

Attached Documents:
Paper 1: Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill - Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee

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7.2 Building safety

(Pages 63 - 64)

Attached Documents:
Paper 2: Building Safety – Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government

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7.3 Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

(Pages 65 - 112)

Attached Documents:
Paper 3: Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill – Letter from the Welsh Local Government Association

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7.4 Forward work programme

(Pages 113 - 129)

Attached Documents:
Paper 4: Correspondence from Public Health Wales on ‘Shaping the future of healthy housing for children and families in Wales

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7.5 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Pages 130 - 131)

Attached Documents:
Paper 5: Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip regarding the Budget Cover Transfer between UK Government, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and Welsh Government to support digital inclusion activity in Wales

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7.6 Building Safety (Wales) Bill

(Pages 132 - 136)

Attached Documents:
Paper 6: Building Safety (Wales) Bill - Additional information from the Welsh Government

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7.7 Legislative Consent: Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill

(Pages 137 - 140)

Attached Documents:
Paper 7: Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - Welsh Government response

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7.8 Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill

(Pages 141 - 143)

Attached Documents:
Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation (Wales) Bill: Paper 8: Correspondence between the NRLA and the Chair of the Local Government and Housing Committee

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Private meeting

14.45

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8 Building Safety (Wales) Bill: Consideration of evidence

14.45 - 15.00

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