“What recent discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the effect on people in Wales of the UK Government's recent changes to welfare benefits.”
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Wales
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
In July last year we set out a detailed five-step plan to deliver a decade of renewal in social and affordable housing. The plan includes the biggest boost to grant funding in a generation, the establishment of an effective and stable regulatory regime, and action to rebuild the sector’s capacity to borrow and invest in new and existing homes. All that—alongside investment in existing stock—will help to ensure that councils and housing associations throughout the north-east can deliver more homes.