Decarbonising the Housing Stock

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:59 pm on 14 October 2020.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:59, 14 October 2020

Minister, this is probably one of the most important areas of public policy, and will be in the 2020s, and even in the private sector we'll require a lot of grant aid so that home owners can install new boilers and insulation schemes, and so forth. So, all this retrofitting, particularly in the old housing stock—a good proportion of it before the first world war—will require great skill in fitting and installation. We've heard about the leasehold scandal just now, and some of that was caused by, actually, good materials being so badly fitted that they were a fire risk. So, how will you ensure that the regulatory system does not fail again, as it has in the last 20 years for our poor leaseholders?