Cabinet Secretary for Housing (Wales)
Former Welsh Government minister
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The Cabinet Secretary for Housing (Welsh: Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Tai) was a member of the Cabinet in the Welsh Government. The most recent office holder was Jayne Bryant from 2024 to 2026. The housing role is currently held by the Cabinet Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning.
StyleWelsh Cabinet Secretary
StatusCabinet Secretary
Reportstothe Senedd and the First Minister of Wales
| Cabinet Secretary for Housing of Wales | |
|---|---|
| Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Tai (Welsh) | |
 | |
| Welsh Government | |
| Style | Welsh Cabinet Secretary |
| Status | Cabinet Secretary |
| Member of | |
| Reports to | the Senedd and the First Minister of Wales |
| Seat | Cardiff |
| Nominator | First Minister of Wales |
| Appointer | |
| Term length |
|
| 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 | [2] | |
| Minister for Housing, Regeneration & Heritage | ||||||||
| Huw Lewis |  |
13 May 2011 | 2013 | Labour | Second Jones government | [3][4] | ||
| Minister for Housing | ||||||||
| Julie James | .jpg) |
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 | .jpg) |
17 July 2024 | 8 May 2026 | Cabinet Secretary for Local Government
Planning portfolio (July–September 2024) |
Labour | Gething government | [12][13] | |
Responsibilities
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]
