Decision details
Debate on Affordable Housing Targets
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Decision:
The item started
at 16.23
Voting on the motion and amendments under
this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5884 Jane Hutt (Vale of
Glamorgan)
To propose the National
Assembly for Wales:
Notes the latest progress
towards the Welsh Government's increased target of 10,000 additional affordable
homes during this Assembly, and that 91 per cent of that target has been
achieved.
The
latest statistics on affordable housing provision in Wales for 2014-15
The following
amendments were tabled:
Amendment
1 - Paul Davies (Preseli Pembrokeshire)
Add as new point at end of
motion:
Notes the need to end
Wales's housing crisis and regrets that the Welsh Government's affordable
housing target has no connection to the number in housing need.
A vote was taken on Amendment 1:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
15 |
0 |
33 |
48 |
Amendment 1 was not
agreed.
Amendment
2 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
Add as new point at end of
motion:
Notes the research of
Professor Holmans which states that "if future need and demand for housing
in Wales is to be met, there needs to be a return to rates of house building
not seen for almost 20 years, and an increase in the rate of growth of
affordable housing."
'Public
Policy Institute for Wales Report - Future Need and Demand for Housing in
Wales'
A vote was taken on Amendment 2:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
49 |
0 |
0 |
49 |
Amendment 2 was
agreed.
Amendment
3 - Aled Roberts (North Wales)
Add as new point at end of
motion:
Believes that the target
for building affordable homes should be doubled in the next Assembly term.
A vote was taken on Amendment 3:
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
16 |
0 |
33 |
49 |
Amendment 3 was not
agreed.
A vote was taken on the motion as amended:
NDM5884 Jane Hutt (Vale of
Glamorgan)
To propose the National
Assembly for Wales:
1. Notes the latest
progress towards the Welsh Government's increased target of 10,000 additional
affordable homes during this Assembly, and that 91 per cent of that target has
been achieved.
2. Notes the research of
Professor Holmans which states that "if future need and demand for housing
in Wales is to be met, there needs to be a return to rates of house building
not seen for almost 20 years, and an increase in the rate of growth of
affordable housing."
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
49 |
0 |
0 |
49 |
The
motion as amended was agreed.
Publication date: 24/11/2015
Date of decision: 24/11/2015
Decided at meeting: 24/11/2015 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly