 Well Borodar-Paab, thank you very much for joining me this morning. Later today I will be introducing the Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2023, building on the excellent achievements of its predecessor, which I am pleased to say all social homes in Wales have achieved. I'm introducing this new standard so that we can continue to drive up the quality of social housing in Wales. The new standard is bold and it is deliberately demanding. We are doing this because we are determined that social The hospital housing in Wales delivers low carbon, high quality homes for tenants that are safe, affordable to heat and fit for the 21st century and beyond. Living in a quality home brings multiple physical and mental well-being benefits. The 44 elements that make up the standard will ensure social homes in Wales continue to provide those benefits. The 2020s have already brought rapid and unexpected change. The coronavirus pandemic fundamentally changed how people live and work and what they they need from a home. Social justice and equality issues such as broadband access and floaring provision, building safety and the ability to live safely and securely in homes have become even more paramount. Appreciation of our homes is higher than ever, which is why this new standard is so firmly focused on tenants. As the Minister for Climate Change, it will come as no surprise that I have made decarbonisation of our social housing stock a central theme for this new standard. Felly o'r cymdeithasol arser i'w gweld o'r sgwdydd ynno i teimlo wedi'i ei ddechrau gwylltion yn y meddwl mwyaf o'r ymgyrch chi'n trwy'r teineddol yn gwyllteisio ar gyflor gêl ar gweithio. Yn rydyn ni'n edrych ar gweithio ar 230,000 maslycau maslycau ar ysgwir yng nghymru, rydyn ni'n credu mynd i ymgyrchu dech~~~~rodydd o'r 1.2 miliwn, ond mewn maslycau ei gynell. Y llwain newydd yn gyntaf i ysgol y sgol ffyrdd ymlaen ffordd wedi eu ddyliadau a'r apcaf, a siam, am y dda a'i'r grwp yn ei fusedw. Rhyw ystod y gwleidio y llwain newydd ar y mewn llwyr wedi'i gweld ystod, a rydw i Iewydd i ysgol. Dyma yn ei wych i ffordd ystod o sylfaedd a llwyr yn gweld y cyfrifiadau. Y gweithio y llwyr yn ygyrch yn ddysgu'r llwyddiadau, a gweithio'r llwyddiadau, mae'r gweithio'r gyffredigau sut wedi gweldio o'r defnyddio gyda'r trofodaeth, aDIF yn oed yn y trofodaeth cyflos yng Nghymru. Yn ei wneud ystyried gan gyda wlad o hynny ac yn symud i bod hynny, mae yma'r f dorffod agrannu garfarkt yw cyffredig iawn a'r gwybodaeth er ôl, ac mae'r gwybodaeth yw'r cyflos sy'n ei gynhyrch i chi, ond ar y ddefnyddio gwirio gwirio gwirio. Dyna cystru a'r amendments yr ankerdweithio, the tragic case in Rochedale of A-Wab Ishaq. The standard makes absolutely clear the requirement of social landlords that homes must be free from damp, including persistent condensation. There are 13 elements within this new standard that are either new or revised, and landlords will need to start the process of becoming compliant with these elements from April 1 next year. We are taking a pragmatic approach to these changes, with a number of elements being realised at change of tenancy. This will ensure there is a process of phasing in elements over a period of time to assist social landlords with programme costs. In addition, new elements such as the whole stock assessment and targeted energy pathways mentioned earlier will need to be completed within a three-year period. The cost of meeting these new elements relating to affordable wants and decarbonisation can be funded from social landlords' optimised retrofit programme budget allocations. I know the sector expressed concerns about the cost of meeting the standard during the consultation phase and those concerns persist in terms of financing our ambitions for decarbonising the social housing sector. So along with core funding streams such as major repairs allowance providing over 60 million to local authorities annually and dowry funding of over 43 million to the large-scale voluntary transfer housing associations, we have the optimised retrofit programme providing 270 million over this term of government to social housing. However, to provide additional support I intend to make 22.5 million available across this year and next targeted at supporting social housing meeting the new Wales housing quality standard. Over the next year my officials will work with the sector to ensure that future funding best supports the ongoing work to meet the new standard as well as supporting innovation. This new standard has been developed in collaboration with stakeholders and across departments over a two-year period. It also contains elements that align with our circular economy principles, active travel, biodiversity and water efficiency to contribute to our climate change goals set out in our net zero Wales plans. I'm confident it's the right standard at the right time, but implementation will not be without its challenges. As a government we will continue to work collaboratively with the sector in the same way we have developed the standard to overcome these challenges. I'm committed to a review of the standard within three years enabling us to take account of what the whole stock surveys are telling us. The scale of the challenge of upgrading social housing is extensive. This new standard is bold and achievable and it is deliberately demanding. However, we've done it before and together with our social landlords we can do it again. We need to be pragmatic, rise to the challenge because our Welsh tenants are counting on us. Thank you. Diolch yn fawr. Now take questions starting with Dan Wilson. Thank you minister. This announcement obviously is very much around upgrading existing stock, but can you guarantee that it won't divert attention or resources away from the very real need for more social housing in the first place? Absolutely not. This is to go alongside the new build programme. We've already made sure that the new build programme delivers low carbon climate friendly housing. Those houses are better for the tenants who live in them, as well as for the planet that we all depend on. This absolutely is a parallel programme to bring the existing stock up to the standard that the new stock is already being built to. Thank you. On the subject of climate change we saw that the impact of storm Bebet over the weekend at the end of last week. Northeast Wales really took the brunt of it in terms of here. You know, we've heard from residents, particularly near Wrexton, who say that there was potentially that flood defences were not being properly used or temporary flood defences were not put in place. Natural Resources Wales, obviously you look after that, say they're investigating it, but how concerned are you by that possibility? So we rely very heavily on Natural Resources Wales to work with our communities. We have community action programmes right across Wales where communities come together to understand where they're at threat of flooding, what to do in their own interests, as well as what can be relied on from NRW. Climate change is real and it's upon us. You know, we're having to deal with events we really didn't think we'd have to deal with on this regular basis. We need to all be more resilient. We'll of course do a lessons learned from Storm Bebet as we always do and it's too early for me to be able to say the ins and outs of exactly what happened. But you know, we work very hard to make sure that our communities are resilient and can help themselves as much as possible, as well as relying on the amazing NRW staff who I just want to pay some tribute to because they work tirelessly, you know, 24 hours all the way around the clock to try and make sure people were safe. But it's too early for me to be able to answer, you know, real detail about what exactly happened. Thank you Dan. So turning to Dan Davis on the screen now. Thanks Minister. You mentioned the EPCA standard. Is the target for that still 2033? I'm sure you'll be aware that a lot of people in the sector when you started consulting thought that these standards were not achievable in that timescale without extra money. And I know you've just announced 22 million for this year and next. Can you say where that's come from? Have you cut something else in your department to pay for that? No, that's coming out of the program we already had for decarbonisation. That's not coming out of a transfer. We've always intended to decarbonise our social housing stock. We've been working on the Welsh housing quality standard for a considerable period of time now. I just want to tell you that at the beginning of the first Welsh housing quality standard everybody said we couldn't do it. Everybody was universally convinced we couldn't do it. But we have done it. We've done it because the sector pulled together because tenants wanted it and because it's the right thing to do. So yes, we'll do this in stages. So it's EPCC by 2029 first, but the whole housing stock assessments will be really important. So we'll need to get that information back and then we'll need to recalibrate. But yes, the target is in place. I'm absolutely convinced we can do it. We will need to fund it, yes. We will need to skill up our workforce to do it, yes. But we absolutely need to do it and we need to do it for decarbonisation, but also for energy efficiency for our tenants. Thanks. We were expecting you to make a statement on water quality today. That's been postponed till December the 12th. Can you tell us why? Particularly in the light of more stories, PPC story last week on discharges into the number of a TV, no fines issued by natural resources wells in this case. And they say that they're looking at another 101 duod cymru plants. Are you happy that they're taking robust enough action? Or are they letting water companies off the hook? So I have a series of meetings with both duod cymru and natural resources wells coming up, both separately and together. And we've postponed the oral statement until after the next summit, so that we can make sure that the action plan is on track and I can report properly back to the centres where the action plan is from the phosphate summit. So the water quality issues will come up there and we'll be able to properly interrogate the data. So this isn't about delay for delay's sake, it's about making sure that the sequence of events is such that we get the best information to centres members so that they can take the appropriate action. Thank you, Dan. So the next one is Hamish Oskary from ITV Wells. Thank you, minister. Yes, I mean the Welsh housing quality standard has been around for 20 years now. I wonder whether, given we're still talking about EPC rated C homes by 2029, whether or not people who are living in homes that are cold and damp will feel this is as ambitious as you say it is. So the previous standard got us to EPCD, that's a considerable improvement on where their stock was. So all stock is at EPCD already and then this is the next set of improvements. So I think it is ambitious. I think the eventual target is ambitious as well. It's quite stretching. We have a large number of houses, some of the oldest in Europe as well as I always want to say some of the best in Europe. So we need to work with our partners to do this but I think it's the right thing to do and it has to be achievable, stretching but achievable. So I think that's what we've set out. The standard is quite stretching in a number of other areas as well and makes some immediate improvements too. There's one other question, the points about bicycle storage and water butts, has that come from feedback from tenants about the need for that kind of provision or where does that come from exactly? So that's part of our overarching ambition that homes should be livable in and usable into the changing climate. So the water butts, you know, that saves an enormous amount of water from going into our water courses. We've already had flooding over the last few days. I mean it's essential that we do these measures to make sure that we're able to have more resilience. It also allows our tenants to, you know, make sure that they can grow nice things in their backyard, vegetables or flowers if they want to and be able to water it in a sustainable fashion. I mean it's an important part of decarbonising and climate proofing our housing and the bicycle storage is the same thing. If we're asking people to undertake active travel and to have more active lives then they have to have somewhere to store the equipment to do that. And I mean I'm famous for saying that much of the housing that's been built in Wales you walk through the front door. The first thing I always ask is where would I hang my Mac in this house? You know, if you can barely get in and there's nowhere to put your toddler's bike then that's not really a livable home and it puts stress on that family right from the get-go and so we want to build housing where that just does not happen. Thank you Hemish. So the next one is Ruth Muselski from Wales Online. Hi Mr Sir, can you give us an update please on 20mph? Obviously it falls in your remit. We know you've got internal polling and data coming to you so can you tell us compliance, exemption requests etc please? So we'll be looking at how the policy is rolling out across Wales. We've already looked at how it's been implemented in different areas. I can tell you I have a meeting with the WLGA this afternoon alongside Lee Waters who's the Minister with Primary Responsibility for the Policy to discuss the rollout across Wales and obviously we'll be keeping it under review as it rolls out and it's very early dates yet. I'm sure you saw polling last week which was obviously in the initial aftermath of the policy being rolled out there was 46% opposition and 34% support. There was then polling last week from Redfield and Wilson on Wilton sorry that it was 59% opposition. Are you worried that opposition number appears to be getting higher as time goes on rather than better which is what the Deputy Minister said you hoped for? Well so there's a standard curve for introduction of safety measures which this is still tracking. Now we take the opposition very seriously. People are very concerned about the changes to their way of life but so far I have to say from my own experience it makes little difference. I drove all the way to north Wales last Thursday and all the way back again on Friday. The thing that caused most disruption to my journey was flooding and climate change. 20 miles an hour made absolutely no difference the amount of time it took me to either get there or get back. People will get used to it and we'll have to adapt accordingly. So did you say at the beginning there it is tracking as you expected? It is tracking along the goodwin curve as I understand it but I don't have primary responsibility for this and I don't have those statistics with me at the moment. Thank you.