Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:58 pm on 15 June 2021.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:58, 15 June 2021

Well, look, I entirely agree, Llywydd, with the points that Rhun ap Iorwerth is making about the vital importance of a retrofitting programme. The Welsh Government will bring forward such a programme. We will invest significant sums in it, because the energy that is given off by the houses we live in is one of the major challenges we face. It is also why we are so determined that the 20,000 new social rent houses that we will build will be houses that will generate as much energy as they use. And the investment that we made in the last Senedd term, in our innovative housing programme, has given us some really vital experience and information that we can use, with real-life examples of housing being built in Wales, that does exactly that—generates more energy than it consumes. Then that has given us a really solid platform from which we can build the sort of houses of the future that will contribute to the effort to address climate change, rather than being another drain on it.