Well, following publication of your fuel poverty plan today, 'Tacking fuel poverty 2021-2035', it seems the plan is largely the same as the draft proposals, and while we certainly welcome the short-term actions, we're very disappointed in particular that there are still no interim milestones between now and 2035. How do you respond to the subsequent statement by National Energy Action, NEA Cymru, that the Welsh Government has fallen short of its statutory duties, and that unless urgently addressed, thousands of people living in the coldest and most expensive to heat homes may not be helped for years to come? As they say, several years after the previous targets to eradicate the scourge of cold homes in Wales were missed, fuel poverty continues to be a devastating problem. Over 150,000 households can't afford to heat and power their homes and COVID-19 has made this challenge starker, with many people at home using more energy, owing more and earning less.

As well as setting a final target for action to end fuel poverty in Wales, the Welsh Government has a legal duty to introduce supporting milestones to set a path to the final target. How do you therefore respond to their statement that although the Welsh Government says that it will consider these interim targets in 2023, today's plan does not include this legal requirement, and that there needs to be a clear commitment to eliminating the most severe fuel poverty by the end of this decade at the very latest, with this milestone and the final target put on a statutory basis to ensure they have legal standing and cannot be dismissed by future administrations? 

Are you aware that there was also near universal support during the consultation for the Welsh Government to meet its legal duty to specify interim targets, and that both the Fuel Poverty Coalition Cymru and the cross-party group on fuel poverty and energy efficiency also wrote to you on this issue, stressing the importance of this being addressed in the final plan? Do you understand that failure to introduce any interim targets would result in there being no effective way of ensuring the worst affected households, those in most severe fuel poverty, are assisted as a priority before the final target date, and will you therefore address this key omission in the plan as soon as possible?

Although the plan makes two brief references to health in the context of winter resilience and consulting on eligibility for support beyond March 2023, a further two years down the road, why has the Welsh Government not committed within the plan to longer term measures to joined-up action on fuel poverty within the health sector, alongside the commitment to reach net zero? Although your plan states that it will ensure that people in most need receive the most appropriate package of support, so that they can always continue to heat their homes, how does it address Fuel Poverty Coalition Cymru's call, in its submission to you, for the worst first to be prioritised, accelerating action for those most in need in accordance with the clear principle embedded in the 2010 strategy? Where is the detail? Where are the actions?

How do you respond to the reality that although fixing Wales's cold, leaky housing, and reducing needless energy costs, is fundamental, the Welsh Government has also missed the opportunity to introduce fuel poverty targets related to upgrading the energy efficiency of homes, where helping improve homes, especially for those living on the lowest incomes, is directly in the control of the Welsh Government, and should have been a clear priority? Your plan states that the standard assessment procedure methodology under which homes are given an energy performance certificate, or EPC, will continue to provide the basis of the Welsh housing conditions survey and the setting of domestic energy efficiency targets. However, how do you respond to the statement by the Fuel Poverty Coalition Cymru to you that at least one additional EPC target should be included, at minimum, to match the statutory target in England for all fuel-poor households to reach EPC band C by 2030?

Finally, how do you respond to calls by the National Residential Landlords Association for the Welsh Government to ring-fence grant funding to tackle fuel poverty in the private rented sector because that is at the heart of the problem due to the age of the stock; to support local authorities by funding personnel to conduct monitoring and administration of ECO, or energy company obligation funding, to end the postcode lottery in Wales where some councils don't have the resources; and, finally, to replicate the UK Government's green homes grant to upgrade homes including the private rented sector in England—the homes not reached by the Welsh Government's current Warm Homes scheme? Diolch.