These reports are intended to provide you with the facts and factual analysis upon which Ministers have taken the following decisions
Within this section the decisions relate to: Home insurance; Home ownership; Homelessness; Houseboats; Houses in multiple occupancy; Housing advice services; Housing finance; Housing repairs and renovation; Housing surveys; Mobile homes; Rented housing; Residential homes; Social housing; Temporary accommodation; and, Unoccupied property(housing).
26/06/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed to write to Chairs of Fire and Rescue Authorities formally requesting information about their functions.
26/06/12
The Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology & Science and the Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European Programmes have agreed the appointment of Professor Hywel Thomas.
21/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved Substance Misuse Action Fund capital expenditure proposals.
20/06/12
The Minister for Housing Regeneration and Heritage has agree to pay an additional sum of £19,166 to Caerphilly County Borough as final settlement of their pre ballot costs claim.
20/06/12
The Minister for Housing Regeneration and Heritage has agreed to pay the sum of £1,101,823 which is 100% of the pre ballot costs incurred by the Council, and to note the date by which Council intend to achieve the Welsh Housing Quality Standard.
19/06/12
The Minister for Finance and Leader of the House agreed: capital funding for land reclamation, infrastructure and related works on site and in the wider BG CBC area; in principle to support an Energy Centre, leisure centre, car park and infrastructure works as set out in the Statement of Informatio
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19/06/12
The Minister for Finance and Leader of the House has agreed to a virement of £2.653m between infrastructure projects on site in 2011/12.
19/06/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities agreed the oral statement on the emergency response to major flooding events in mid and North Wales tabled in plenary on 12 June 2012.
19/06/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed funding for specialist equipment for the Fire and Rescue Service.
19/06/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has decided to continue to fund Newport Unlimited, the Urban Regeneration Company jointly owed by the Welsh Government and Newport City Council, for the financial year 2012-2013.
01/06/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has agreed the implementation of the new suite of Key Performance Indicators from July 2012.
28/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the responses to the Committee’s recommendations.
28/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities agreed to make an oral statement on providing support for council tax in Wales.
28/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities, the Minister for Health and Social Services and the Minister for Finance and Leader of the House have agreed to the transfer of monies.
28/05/12
The Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology & Science has noted the above submission and agreed the recommendations at para 3.
28/05/12
The Minister for Housing Regeneration and Heritage has approved a revised approach and priorities for action for the campaign at a cost of £200,000 per year for two years. The Welsh Government contribution is £50,000 a year with the remainder from partner organisations and EU funding through the VR
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28/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage provided his consent to the Lord Chancellor to make an Order allowing for all decisions of the Rent Assessment Committee that relate to cases in Wales to be heard by the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).
28/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the recommendation to provide Regeneration Area capital funding to the development of the new Mayhill Family Centre, the demolition of Oldway House and a Retail Capacity Study.
25/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the final guidance and the covering letter to local housing authorities.
24/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage and the Minister for Finance and Leader of the House have approved the Strategic Objectives for a new Mortgage Guarantee Scheme for Wales. They have also agreed a direction of travel as demonstrated by shortlisted options and for officials to proc
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22/05/12
The Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development agreed to issue the Welsh Government response
22/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the Cabinet paper. The Minister has also agreed that the paper should be withheld from publication by virtue of Section 35(1)(a) (the formulation or development of Government policy) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
21/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed to set and publish a target for affordable housing delivery between May 2011 and April 2016.
21/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved a written statement on housing targets for the term of this government.
18/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration & Heritage has agreed the transfer £100,000 from Regeneration Division to Housing Division for one year only.
18/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the statement.
18/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved the Community Safety Partnership’s Substance Misuse Action Fund capital expenditure proposal totaling £49,554 for the Cwm Taf Area Planning Board in 2011/2012.
17/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed issuing the allocation of MRA grant and agreed that an extension be granted to Caerphilly and the Vale of Glamorgan councils to achieve the WHQS by 2019 - 20 and 2017 respectively.
17/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has approved the Cabinet Paper for the Chief Constables attendance at Cabinet
17/05/12
The Minister for Housing, regeneration and Heritage has approved the Sectoral plans contained in Docs 2 and 3 and agrees for this text to be incorporated into and published in the WIIP.
15/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed the payment.
15/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed the draft Oral Statement on empty homes that is to be delivered in Plenary on 8th May and noted the supplementary information that had been provided.
15/05/12
The First Minister re-appointed the member of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council appointed by Welsh Ministers with the concurrence of the Lord Chancellor and Scottish Ministers and nominated this member to be chairperson of the Welsh Committee. The First Minister also re-appointed the
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14/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services has approved allocations for the Substance Misuse Action Fund Revenue and Capital Budget Expenditure Lines in 2012-13.
14/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed to proposals to enable Welsh Credit Unions to access capital funding using the Community Development Fund and to remake the offer of capital grant funding not exceeding £200k to secure the future of the ROMCUL Credit Union subject to agre
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14/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed to the recruitment of a secondee
11/05/12
. Summary of decision / Crynodeb o’r penderfyniad: The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed to a 5 week consultation for the Proposed Interim Arrangements to take forward the new Supporting People Programme Grant in Wales.
11/05/12
The Minister for Health and Social Services agreed to the expansion of the ESF Peer Mentoring Project in the Convergence area through ESF Strategic Framework Priority Two Theme Two in three areas.
10/05/12
The Minister for Finance and Leader of the House has agreed to the implementation of Section 318 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 in Wales. The Minster has also agreed to the drafting of a consultation paper on the effect of the implementation of Section 318 of the Housing and Regeneration
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10/05/12
The Minister for Housing Regeneration and Heritage agreed to re-appoint four professional members and six lay members to the Residential Property Tribunal for a further period of five years.
10/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed the introductory strategic narratives for the Programme for Government Annual Report.
08/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed to the payment of £5,532 revenue in 2011-12 and £2,592,352 revenue and £53,465 capital in 2012-13 from the Fire and Rescue Service Resilience programme budget.
08/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the Potential Allocation of the Major Repairs Allowance for 2012/13 to Local Authorities.
04/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities agreed to the letter to the Committee.
04/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities approved the consultation document, noted the draft regulations and agreed to a reduced consultation period of six weeks for the new arrangements for the Drink Drive Rehabilitation Scheme.
04/05/12
The Minister for Local Government & Communities has agreed the proposed allocations for the Domestic Abuse / Violence Against Women Services Grant Revenue and Capital Budget Expenditure Lines (BEL) in 2012-13.
03/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage the letter.
03/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed to the draft Fire and Rescue National Framework 2012 onwards – Post Consultation draft and has agreed to the proposed Government response to the consultation that is to be fed into the Regulatory Impact Assessment.
03/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed funding of up to £47,000 revenue per annum for two years from Spring 2012 for an inward secondment from the third sector
02/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed the recommendation made by Môn a Menai Regeneration Area on 27th April 2012.
01/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed to the provision of six temporary posts as set out at paragraph 5 – 14; and also that funding for the posts is made available from Social Housing Management Grant.
01/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities agreed that officials enter into negotiations with representatives of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme for the purpose of reaching a voluntary agreement that seeks to recover a proportion of the capital funding awarded in 2010 for the prop
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01/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed that the letter to the WLGA.
01/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed to the content of the Transition Issues Paper at Doc 2; and agreed the interim funding arrangements as described at paragraphs 12 to 23 and allocations at Doc 3.
01/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed the project recommendations made by the North Wales Coast Regeneration Area Steering Group at its meetings from September 2011 to February 2012.
01/05/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage agreed that a draft Direction be sent to Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council for consultation and in the event of the Council not making any substantive objections, , agreed to the making of the Direction
01/05/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed a payment of up to £20,000 revenue in 2012-13 from the Fire and Rescue Service Resilience programme budget to support flagship events in both North and South Wales (up to £10,000 each).
19/04/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has agreed to allocate £5 million to Safe Routes in Communities projects across Wales.
17/04/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the recommendations made by the Môn a Menai Regeneration Area Steering Group : Menai Bridge Waterfront - Menter Môn £15,000; Amlwch Community Training Initiative - Parry’s Training additional funding £12,625; Fast Track to Developing
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16/04/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has approved the reallocation of capital funding totaling £2,523,351 from Welsh Housing Quality Standard Support to Social Housing Grant Programme for 2011-12.
13/04/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities’ has approved the prepared text of the Annual Report on the Voluntary Sector Scheme 2010-11 for publication and laying before the National Assembly for Wales in compliance with Section 74 of the Government of Wales Act 2006.
13/04/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has agreed to the publication of the Supporting People Outcomes Framework Guidance and the outcomes/ exit questionnaire.
13/04/12
The Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage has accepted the proposed Welsh Government’s response to the National Assembly for Wales’ Enterprise and Business Committee’s report on town centre regeneration.
12/04/12
The Minister for Local Government and Communities has approved the CSP Substance Misuse Action Fund capital expenditure proposals totalling £103,205 for the Gwent Area Planning Board in 2011/12.
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