Cabinet Secretary for Housing

Welsh Government cabinet minister

The Cabinet Secretary for Housing (Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Tai) is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current office holder is Jayne Bryant since July 2024.

Ministers

Responsibilities

The post's responsibilities are:^[14]

• Housing and planning responsibilities
  • Overseeing housing and its related activities conducted by housing associations and local authorities, such as the management of housing and the allocation of affordable and social housing.
  • The supply and quality of market-sector, affordable and social housing.
  • Second homes in Wales
  • Housing advice and homelessness
  • Private rented sector housing matters, and registered social landlord regulation
  • Aids and adaptations, such as the Physical Adaptation Grants and Disabled Facilities Grants
  • Housing-related support provision, excluding Housing Benefit payment
  • Local authority-led commercial tenancies regulation
  • National Infrastructure Commission
  • Planning acts implementation and oversight, as well as the oversight and implementation of all aspects of Wales' planning policy and the determination of called-in planning applications and planning appeals.
  • Planning gain, and using Town and Country Planning Act 1990 section 106 agreements.
  • "Developments of National Significance", determining planning applications and any connected consents.
  • Building regulations
  • Future Wales: the national plan 2040
  • Regeneration, including the use of Strategic Regeneration Areas; legacy regeneration; Transforming Town Centres programme and provision of sites and premises, derelict land and environmental improvements relating to regeneration.^[15]

See also

• Wales portal

• Government of Wales

• Ministry

References

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14. "Julie James MS: Minister for Climate Change | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
15. "Welsh Government organisation chart | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 2 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.