Like Andrew R.T. Davies and Leanne Wood, I congratulate all those who have been appointed to their offices in this administration, in particular Ken Skates, who informed me the other day that I bought him a drink in the House of Commons 20 years ago. I now look forward to toasting his success at his expense when he returns the favour. [Laughter.]

The First Minister said in his statement that this will be an open, inclusive and transparent administration. I regret to say in relation to these consultative committees that it doesn’t look quite that way on this side of the circle in fact because these committees will be closed to us. They will exclude us, and the method by which they will take decisions and indeed perhaps the decisions they come to will be exceedingly opaque. I think it’s rather unfortunate that a particular segment of Members of this house seem to be excluded now from the process of policy development to the advantage of one other minority parties. I think that, for good government of Wales, it would be to everyone’s advantage if both the Conservatives and UKIP Members in their different ways could be included in these behind-the-scenes negotiations. We will no doubt disagree on many issues, but there are many domestic issues within Wales on which we can find agreement and common cause between parties in different parts of the house, and I offer my own party’s word that we will play a constructive role in this Chamber.

I should secondly like to congratulate Kirsty Williams on her appointment as education Secretary. I’m sure she will do an extremely good job. She’s clearly a very, very capable person. I know that she has taken a great deal of interest in education and made contributions to debates in this Chamber over many years, but this does leave us with a slight democratic problem because, a few weeks ago, she was elected as a Lib Dem AM for Brecon and Radnor and 92 per cent of her constituents voted against the Labour Party, and yet the First Minister confirmed, in answer to a question earlier on, that Kirsty Williams would be bound by collective responsibility and therefore, in effect, has become a Labour AM in this Chamber. When my honourable friend, Mark Reckless defected from the Conservative Party to UKIP, he sought the endorsement of his electors in Rochester in a by-election and I believe that is the honourable course of action. I wonder whether the First Minister agrees that that would be appropriate for the constituency of Brecon and Radnor.