Cabinet Secretary for Housing explained

Post:	Cabinet Secretary for Housing
Body:	Wales
Flag:	Flag of Wales.svg
Flagsize:	50px
Incumbent:	Jayne Bryant MS
Department:	Welsh Government
Style:	Welsh Cabinet Secretary
Status:	Cabinet Secretary
Reports To:	the Senedd and the First Minister of Wales
Seat:	Cardiff
Nominator:	First Minister of Wales
Appointer:	The Crown
Termlength:	Five years
Termlength Qualified:	Subject to elections to the Senedd which take place every five years
First:	Peter Law AM (as 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.

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 SustainabilityMinister for Environment (from December 2009 under Jones)	Labour	Fourth Morgan governmentFirst 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 GovernmentPlanning portfolio	Labour	Gething government	^[11]
	Jayne Bryant		17 July 2024	Incumbent	Cabinet Secretary for Local GovernmentPlanning portfolio	Labour	Gething government	^[12]

Responsibilities

See also: Politics of Wales and 2021 Senedd election.

The post's responsibilities are:^[13]

• 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.^[14]

See also

• Government of Wales
• Ministry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Key Events in the Development of the National Assembly for Wales First Assembly: 1999 - 2003 . senedd.wales . National Assembly for Wales.
2. Web site: Key Events in the Development of the National Assembly for Wales Third Assembly: 2007 - 2011 . senedd.wales . National Assembly for Wales.
3. Web site: Assembly Government names housing minister . 2024-01-19 . Inside Housing . En.
4. Web site: 2013-03-14 . Written Statement - Cabinet Reshuffle (14 March 2013) GOV.WALES . 2024-01-19 . www.gov.wales . en.
5. Web site: 2018-12-13 . First Minister announces new cabinet GOV.WALES . 2024-01-19 . www.gov.wales . en.
6. News: 2018-12-13 . Wales' new first minister Mark Drakeford appoints his team . 2024-01-19 . BBC News . en-GB.
7. Web site: Welsh housing minister to lead new climate change ministry . 2024-01-18 . Inside Housing . En.
8. Web site: Mosalski . Ruth . 2021-05-13 . Live updates as Mark Drakeford overhauls Welsh Government cabinet . 2024-01-19 . Wales Online . en.
9. News: 2021-05-12 . Wales election: New health and education ministers in reshuffle . 2024-01-19 . BBC News . en-GB.
10. Web site: Four members of Welsh government quit, calling for First Minister Vaughan Gething to resign. BBC News.
11. News: 21 March 2024 . Wales' new First Minister Vaughan Gething announces his cabinet . ITV News.
12. Web site: 2024-07-17 . Vaughan Gething reshuffles Welsh Labour top team after resignations . 2024-07-17 . The Independent . en.
13. Web site: Julie James MS: Minister for Climate Change GOV.WALES . 2024-01-18 . www.gov.wales . en.
14. Web site: 2024-01-02 . Welsh Government organisation chart GOV.WALES . 2024-01-16 . www.gov.wales . en.