§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on his policy for housing in Wales. [68600]
Mr. Jon Owen JonesThe Government's objectives for housing in Wales are to offer everyone in Wales the opportunity of a decent home, to achieve clear improvements in all housing tenures and to do so in the context of the promotion of sustainable development. The 1999–2000 Government's Expenditure Plans: Departmental Report by the Welsh Office which will be published in April, and which takes into account the outcome of the public consultation on the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review: Spending Plans 1999–2002, will set out the mechanisms by which this objective will be met. Copies of the Departmental Report will be placed in the Library of the House.
In future this will become the responsibility of the National Assembly.