Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 29 January 2019.
Well, Llywydd, Gareth Bennett is right in saying that the purpose of putting local government planning and housing in the same portfolio is to do everything that we can to make those things more joined together and to make the planning system more effective in delivering on some of our major policy ambitions here in Wales, including the provision of new and affordable housing, and that, indeed, does lie behind the decision to bring those matters together in the one portfolio.