The Cabinet Secretary for Housing () is a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The current office holder is Jayne Bryant since July 2024.
Ministers
Responsibilities
The post's responsibilities are:
- 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.
See also
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