Cabinet Secretary for Housing

The Cabinet Secretary for Housing (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.

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.