Agenda - Local Government and Housing Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 4, Tŷ Hywel

Meeting date: 21 January 2026

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Catherine Hunt

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddHousing@senedd.wales

Hybrid

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Private pre-meeting

09.15 - 09.30

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Public meeting

09.30

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 1

09.30 - 10.30 (Pages 1 - 49)

Wendy Dearden, Senior Policy and Research Officer, Bevan Foundation

Lauren Caley, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Shelter Cymru

Matthew Dicks, Director, Chartered Institute of Housing

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Paper 1: Bevan Foundation
Paper 2: Shelter Cymru
Paper 3: Chartered Institute of Housing

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Break

10.30 - 10.40

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3 Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 2

10.40 - 11.50 (Pages 50 - 63)

Clarissa Corbisiero, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy and External Affairs, Community Housing Cymru

Craig Sparrow, Executive Director of Development, ClwydAlyn

Jim McKirdle, Housing Policy Officer, Welsh Local Government Association

Councillor Andrea Williams, Swansea Council, Welsh Local Government Association

Neil Barber, Executive Director Property & Investment, Codi Group

Attached Documents:
Paper 4: Community Housing Cymru

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4 Papers to note

11.50

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4.1 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Page 64)

Attached Documents:
Paper 5: Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement: Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government regarding the Inter-ministerial Group (IMG) for Housing, Communities and Local Government

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4.2 Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement

(Page 65)

Attached Documents:
Paper 6: Inter-Institutional Relations Agreement: Letter from the First Minister to the Chair of the Legislation, Justice and Constitution Committee regarding the Celtic Heritage Agreement Annual Report

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4.3 Social housing supply

(Pages 66 - 70)

Attached Documents:
Paper 7: Social Housing Supply – Written evidence from Crisis

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5 Motion under Standing Order 17.42(ix) to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting

11.50

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Private meeting

11.50 - 12.30

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6 Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: consideration of evidence

11.50 - 12.05

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7 Forward work programme

12.05 - 12.20 (Pages 71 - 77)

Attached Documents:
Paper 8: Forward work programme

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8 Building Safety (Wales) Bill: consideration of the Welsh Government's response to the Committee's Stage 1 report.

12.20 - 12.30 (Pages 78 - 108)

Attached Documents:
Paper 9: Building Safety (Wales) Bill – Welsh Government response to the stage 1 report

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