Cabinet Secretary for Housing

The Cabinet Secretary for Housing (Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Tai) is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current office holder is Jayne Bryant since July 2024.

Cabinet Secretary for Housing of Wales
Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Tai (Welsh)
Incumbent Jayne Bryant MS since 17 July 2024 (2024-07-17)
Welsh Government
Style	Welsh Cabinet Secretary
Status	Cabinet Secretary
Member of	Senedd Cabinet
Reports to	the Senedd and the First Minister of Wales
Seat	Cardiff
Nominator	First Minister of Wales
Appointer	The Crown
Term length	Five years Subject to elections to the Senedd which take place every five years
First holder	Peter Law AM (as Secretary for Housing)

Ministers

Name		Picture	Entered office	Left office	Other offices held	Political party	Government
Secretary for Housing
	Peter Law		22 February 2000	16 October 2000	Secretary for Local Government	Labour	Interim Morgan administration	[1]
Minister for Housing
	Jane Davidson		19 July 2007	2011	Minister for Sustainability Minister for Environment (from December 2009 under Jones)	Labour	Fourth Morgan government First Jones government	[2]
Minister for Housing, Regeneration & Heritage
	Huw Lewis		13 May 2011	2013		Labour	Second Jones government	[3][4]
Minister for Housing
	Julie James		13 December 2018	2021	Minister for Local Government	Labour	First Drakeford government	[5][6]
Minister for Climate Change (with housing portfolio)[7]
	Julie James		13 May 2021	20 March 2024		Labour	Second Drakeford government	[8][9]
Cabinet Secretary for Housing
	Julie James		21 March 2024	16 July 2024[10]	Cabinet Secretary for Local Government Planning portfolio	Labour	Gething government	[11]
	Jayne Bryant		17 July 2024	Incumbent'	Cabinet Secretary for Local Government Planning portfolio (July–September 2024)	Labour	Gething government Eluned Morgan government	[12][13]

Responsibilities

See also: Politics of Wales and 2021 Senedd election

The post's responsibilities are:^[14]

• Housing and planning responsibilities
  • Overseeing housing and its related activities conducted by housing associations and local authorities, such as the management of housing and the allocation of affordable and social housing.
  • The supply and quality of market-sector, affordable and social housing.
  • Second homes in Wales
  • Housing advice and homelessness
  • Private rented sector housing matters, and registered social landlord regulation
  • Aids and adaptations, such as the Physical Adaptation Grants and Disabled Facilities Grants
  • Housing-related support provision, excluding Housing Benefit payment
  • Local authority-led commercial tenancies regulation
  • National Infrastructure Commission
  • Planning acts implementation and oversight, as well as the oversight and implementation of all aspects of Wales' planning policy and the determination of called-in planning applications and planning appeals.
  • Planning gain, and using Town and Country Planning Act 1990 section 106 agreements.
  • "Developments of National Significance", determining planning applications and any connected consents.
  • Building regulations
  • Future Wales: the national plan 2040
  • Regeneration, including the use of Strategic Regeneration Areas; legacy regeneration; Transforming Town Centres programme and provision of sites and premises, derelict land and environmental improvements relating to regeneration.^[15]

See also

• Wales portal

• Government of Wales

• Ministry

References

1. "Key Events in the Development of the National Assembly for Wales First Assembly: 1999 - 2003" (PDF). senedd.wales. National Assembly for Wales.
2. "Key Events in the Development of the National Assembly for Wales Third Assembly: 2007 - 2011" (PDF). senedd.wales. National Assembly for Wales.
3. "Assembly Government names housing minister". Inside Housing. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
4. "Written Statement - Cabinet Reshuffle (14 March 2013) | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
5. "First Minister announces new cabinet | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
6. "Wales' new first minister Mark Drakeford appoints his team". BBC News. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
7. "Welsh housing minister to lead new climate change ministry". Inside Housing. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
8. Mosalski, Ruth (13 May 2021). "Live updates as Mark Drakeford overhauls Welsh Government cabinet". Wales Online. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
9. "Wales election: New health and education ministers in reshuffle". BBC News. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
10. "Four members of Welsh government quit, calling for First Minister Vaughan Gething to resign". BBC News.
11. "Wales' new First Minister Vaughan Gething announces his cabinet". ITV News. 21 March 2024.
12. "Vaughan Gething reshuffles Welsh Labour top team after resignations". The Independent. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
13. "Welsh government reshuffle: Miles back as minister after ousting Gething". BBC News. 11 September 2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
14. "Julie James MS: Minister for Climate Change | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
15. "Welsh Government organisation chart | GOV.WALES". www.gov.wales. 2 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.