Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:41 pm on 27 September 2016.
First Minister, the Labour Party are doing all the favours they can for the Conservatives and other parties at the moment—long, long may it continue. As I say, we are now into the trilogy stage, we are, because we had the sequel in 2015, we did.
But the other point that was raised last week, by my colleague, David Melding, on Government policy—because we didn’t get an answer to my second question from you, so clearly there’s no budget line identified yet, or the development of a community nurse strategy to increase numbers—was on housing. And, in the programme for government, you, to your credit, identified you wanted to bring 20,000 social housing units forward by 2021. But that didn’t have any answers to what the current housing crisis faces, of the new-starts in the housing market, where we saw a 7 per cent decline in new-starts in Wales last year. So, how is your Government going to deliver on its social housing targets, and, importantly, how is it going to generate more activity in the overall housing market so that, by 2021, we can be hitting the target of 12,000 units a year, rather than the 8,000 we’re hitting at the moment?