The Welsh Government has announced £36m in loan funding for Registered Social Landlords (RSL) in 2025–26 to help deliver new affordable, low-carbon homes and improve existing social housing. Loans of between £1m–£10m will be available through the RSL Development Loan Scheme. The funding is intended to support construction of energy-efficient homes and to finance upgrades needed to meet the Welsh Housing Quality Standard 2023 (WHQS 2023). The announcement follows a £90m low-interest loan package announced in March 2025, which is on course to deliver 277 affordable homes and upgrade over 4,000 existing properties.

The Welsh Government unveiled a substantial £52.1m investment in general practice for the 2024-2025 General Medical Services (GMS) contract. This represents the largest annual investment in GMS since the pandemic. The package includes a 6% pay uplift for GPs, £12.7m for staff pay expenses, and a £23m one-off practice stabilisation payment. The agreement also introduces improvements to GP access, including enhanced NHS Wales App functionality and new contractual requirements for GPs to identify and record patient frailty and ethnicity data. Additionally, the learning disabilities annual health check will become part of unified services within the GMS contract, and changes to the coronavirus (Covid-19) anti-viral treatment pathway have been agreed upon. These measures aim to strengthen the sustainability of general practice and improve service accessibility across Wales.

The Welsh Government has announced that Bangor University has been awarded a grant of £8.2m over three years for the CAL:ON Cymru project, which stands for the Centre for the Advancement of Literacy: research-led Outcomes and Nation-wide change. The programme will establish a centre of excellence for literacy teaching and deliver bilingual support for all learners aged 3 to 16 across Wales. The initiative will be implemented through a network of CAL:ON Hub schools, with each hub partnered with several other schools to ensure national coverage, and will include specific support for systematic phonics teaching. Cabinet Secretary for Education Lynne Neagle has also confirmed additional funding of £2m for 'Primed for Success' maths support and £1.4m for 'STEM Learning: Teaching Digital with Confidence' to support digital skills teaching across the curriculum. These programmes form part of £44m investment to boost educational standards announced in June 2025.

The Welsh Government has announced £98.75m in funding for the next round of the Optimised Retrofit Programme (ORP), which supports energy efficiency improvements in social housing across Wales. This brings total investment in the programme since 2020 to more than £466m. The ORP funds measures, such as insulation, efficient heating systems and renewable energy installations, and has funded more than 31,000 energy efficiency upgrades to social homes. The funding is intended to help social landlords improve housing quality, reduce energy bills and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The Welsh Government has announced £9m in funding from Great British Energy, the UK government's publicly owned energy company, to support the installation of solar panels on schools and public buildings across Wales. The Welsh Government will oversee delivery of the funding, with up to £4m allocated to solar photovoltaic projects on public buildings through the Wales Funding Programme. Beneficiaries include Coleg Cambria in Wrexham; Porthcawl Comprehensive School and Glan Llyn Primary School and Jubilee Park Primary School in Newport. The remaining funding will support wider renewable investment, including a new scheme called Ymestyn, which aims to provide gap funding for public sector and community decarbonisation projects, such as solar canopies and renewable-integrated battery energy storage. Further information on Ymestyn will be made available when the scheme launches in the coming weeks.

Some of the people affected by the practice of forced adoption between 1949 and 1976 in Wales have been welcomed to the Senedd by the Deputy Minister for Social Services, Julie Morgan, for an apology on behalf of the Welsh Government. The apology follows recommendations published by the Joint Committee on Human Rights in response to an inquiry into the experiences of unmarried women and their children who were adopted in this period, and the consequential impact on their human rights. In Morgan’s official apology in the Senedd chamber prior to the meeting, she acknowledged the ‘diverse and long-lasting’ impacts of the historical practice and stated that the Welsh Government is ‘truly sorry’.

The Welsh Government has concluded its consultation on reforms to the Council Tax appeals framework, which ran from 10 January to 3 April 2025. The proposed changes aim to clarify the roles of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and Valuation Tribunal for Wales (VTW), provide earlier access to property data, improve communication with taxpayers and remove automatic referral of unresolved proposals to the VTW. The government is now reviewing consultation responses before announcing next steps.

The Welsh Government has fulfilled its statutory reporting requirements under section 17 of the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023 (SPPP(W)A 2023) for the 2025–26 period. The Welsh Ministers, in a written statement by the First Minister, Eluned Morgan MS, confirmed that this duty was discharged by consulting the Social Partnership Council (SPC) on strategic decisions relating to well being objectives. SPPP(W)A 2023 requires consultation on steps to meet objectives set under the Well being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 and the publication of an annual report on compliance. Cabinet determined that this duty would be met through consultation on three key areas underpinning the Programme for Government, namely legislative priorities, the annual review of well being objectives, and budget priorities, with meetings held in March, June, and September 2025. Discussions on legislative priorities covered progress on Bills including those on buses, health and social care, and homelessness, with SPC views informing final decisions. The review of well being objectives addressed progress measurement, intergenerational change, and the possible inclusion of a Welsh language objective. In relation to the 2026–27 draft budget, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language highlighted the difficulty of securing Senedd approval and the risks of reduced spending if a budget is not passed, while SPC members acknowledged these challenges and indicated support for emphasising the importance of budget approval, with further engagement and mitigation planning ongoing.

The Welsh Government has announced it will implement proposed changes to the council tax appeals framework following a consultation that ran from 10 January 2025 to 3 April 2025, which received 33 responses. The proposed reforms aim to simplify and improve the appeals process, making it more accessible and efficient for taxpayers. Key changes include: clarifying the respective roles of the Valuation Office Agency and the Valuation Tribunal for Wales, enabling taxpayers to determine how far they wish to progress through the process, increasing the availability of property data earlier in the process, and enhancing the overall customer experience. The Welsh Government will introduce regulations to implement these changes by February 2026.

The Welsh Government has confirmed that operators of permitted waste receiving sites in Wales must use the Digital Waste Tracking System (DWTS) from 1 October 2026 under The Digital Waste Tracking (Wales) Regulations 2026, agreed by the Senedd on 24 March 2026. The regulations require operators to record specified information about waste received through the UK-wide system, which aims to improve understanding of waste generation and management, support greater reuse and recycling, and help tackle waste crime. Household Waste Recycling Centres are excluded from the requirements in Wales. Natural Resources Wales will enforce the regulations and has stated that data should primarily be submitted through an Application Programming Interface (API), although a temporary spreadsheet submission option will be available until October 2027 for organisations without suitable software. Guidance and support have been made available to assist affected operators with implementation.

The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Vikki Howells MS, has issued a written statement confirming that the Government of Wales Act 2006 (Devolved Welsh Authorities) (Amendment) Order 2024, SI 2024/1206 has received royal assent. The Order, which was initially laid before the Senedd and both Houses of Parliament in May 2024, has now been approved by Parliament and was formally made by His Majesty at a Privy Council meeting on 6 November 2024.

The Welsh Government has announced consent to the Secretary of State exercising subordinate legislation-making powers in a devolved area for the Biocidal Products (Data Protection Periods) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. The regulations, made by Minister for Social Security and Disability Sir Stephen Timms, extend data protection periods under article 95(5) of the Great Britain Biocidal Products Regulation from 31 December 2025 to 31 December 2030 for approximately 300 active substance/product-type combinations listed in Annex 2 to Regulation (EU) No 1062/2014 where no approval decision has been reached. The regulations also update references in paragraphs 3 and 5 of article 95 from Regulation (EC) No 1451/2007 to Regulation (EU) No 1062/2014. The extension aims to prevent active substance manufacturers from withdrawing products from the Great Britain market due to loss of data protection, which could impact pest control, transportation and water treatment sectors. The regulations were laid before UK Parliament on 26 November 2025 under the negative procedure and apply across Wales, England and Scotland.