Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Climate Change – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 21 September 2022.
Thank you. You raise a very important point, and clearly the Welsh Government needs to work very closely with the UK Government in relation to many of the issues you raise. You'll appreciate that the new Government coming in hasn't been a usual—. They certainly haven't had a honeymoon period, have they? It's been a difficult time to engage with the new Ministers, so I'm not aware of any specific conversations that have taken place.
I referred before to the homelessness prevention fund, and that £6 million that the Welsh Government brought forward was to plug a gap that the UK Government left with the budget reductions that were brought forward by the Department for Work and Pensions. And whilst the Welsh Government will continue to do all it can to help people with the unprecedented cost-of-living crisis, we have to recognise that we can't plug every gap. But I'm sure that the Minister will be having discussions with her new counterpart when she returns to work.