Agenda - Local Government and Housing Committee

Meeting Venue:

Committee Room 2, Senedd

Meeting date: 26 November 2025

Meeting time: 09.30
For further information contact:

Catherine Hunt

Committee Clerk

0300 200 6565

SeneddHousing@senedd.wales

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Private pre-meeting

09.00 - 09.30

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Public meeting

09.30 - 11.00

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1 Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest

09.30

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2 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Evidence session with the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and Local Government (Local Government)

09.30 - 11.00 (Pages 1 - 77)

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

Reg Kilpatrick, Director - Local Government and Planning, Welsh Government

Judith Cole, Deputy Director – Local Government Finance Policy and Sustainability, Welsh Government

Attached Documents:
Research brief
Paper 1: Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27 – Written evidence from Welsh Government

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3 Papers to note

11.00

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3.1 P-06-1307 The Welsh Government should commit to the adoption of the maintenance of new housing estates by local authorities

(Pages 78 - 79)

Attached Documents:
Paper 2: Petition P-06-1307 The Welsh Government should commit to the adoption of the maintenance of new housing estates by local authorities – Letter from Petitions Committee – 18 November 2025

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3.2 Diversity in local government

(Pages 80 - 84)

Attached Documents:
Paper 3: Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Trefnydd & Chief Whip following the meeting of 5 November – 19 November 2025

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4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of this meeting and for item 1 of the meeting on 11 December

11.00

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5 Welsh Government Draft Budget 2026-27: Consideration of evidence

11.00 - 11.15

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6 Forward work programme

11.15 - 11.30 (Pages 85 - 88)

Attached Documents:
Paper 4: Forward work programme

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