7. Debate on the Local Government and Housing Committee Report: Second Homes

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:16 pm on 5 October 2022.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 4:16, 5 October 2022

Diolch. Thank you very much indeed. I think it's about 18 or 19 years since I first highlighted to the then Welsh Government the fact that there would be an affordable housing crisis in Welsh communities if the then cuts to social housing weren't reversed. But do you share my concern that the latest published figures for quarter 2 of 2022 show that, once again, new home completions in Wales went in reverse, and it's the only nation or region once again in the UK where they actually reduced?