Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople

Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 20 November 2019.

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Photo of Rebecca Evans Rebecca Evans Labour 1:44, 20 November 2019

Well, I would disagree with the way in which our recent budgets have been portrayed in that way. I know the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales has been really keen to provide the maximum challenge to Welsh Government in terms of prevention, and she's asked every single one of the Welsh Government Ministers to demonstrate what each of them are doing in the area of prevention within their own portfolios.

Just in the example of housing and regeneration, we've got the investment in the Welsh housing quality standard. Now, 93 per cent of social housing has now completed and come up to that standard, and we know how important that is in terms of preventative spend to ensure that people live in a safe, warm home. The work that we're doing in terms of independent living, aids and adaptations; the work that's going into the innovative housing programme, which is supporting decarbonisation to ensure that we're building the right houses for the future, which aren't going to be homes that are cold, but which are going to be homes that people are able to afford; the work we are doing on modern methods of construction; the integrated care fund capital programme, which is ensuring that we have housing-led solutions to social care issues; the homelessness action group, again, doing lots of great preventative work in that space; and our regeneration strategy, which is looking to ensure that we have communities that are resilient. Those are just a few examples within one small area of one portfolio that demonstrate the focus that we are putting on prevention.