Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 16 July 2019.
I thank David Melding for that, and, to agree with his opening point that housing policy and climate change are very closely related, we know that we will need a major retrofitting programme here in Wales to make housing built in a previous generation fit for the decarbonisation and climate change challenges that we face. The Welsh Government, using some of the £2 million that we agreed with Plaid Cymru as part of an earlier budget agreement, has been investing in public charging points in Wales. We're up to 800 this month. We had 670 as recently as April, so the number is increasing—not as rapidly as we might like, but definitely increasing. But the point that David Melding makes is right—most charging still happens domestically in people's own homes and the homes that we are building for the future will need to be equipped to make sure that they are equipped to offer this facility to people, and we are taking action to push that agenda forward and we'll look carefully to see what was announced yesterday.