Thank you, Minister, for your statement. While you may be happy to know that I won’t be shadowing you from here on in, considering the work that I’ve done and with yourself and others previously, I felt it incumbent on me to speak today in terms of the work that we have done but also the work we need to do. Because, obviously, you sat on our committee with us previously, in the last Assembly, and many of the recommendations from that report are in your statement, I’m pleased to see, and are becoming a priority for the Welsh Government in this sense. For example, I’d be curious to know, you mentioned that you’re going to give us details on the independent broadcasting forum, but I would like to know how you intend to see the make-up of the committee, because, of course, previously the Institute of Welsh Affairs had to do a freedom of information request on the Welsh Government to find out what had happened to the advisory panel. We don’t want to be in that position again; we want to have a firm and robust independent grouping of people, not only the usual suspects but people who are able to perhaps give a new perspective to the media in Wales, so that that group can inform you and Assembly Members, and that scrutiny can be improved as a consequence. So, I’d like to know some more detail as to how it will report, how they will be chosen for this group and how they will be tasked with their work going forward.

We note that you’re going to be meeting with the UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. I’m sure you’ll be making the case to him about the financial situation needed in terms of enhancing that financial support to English language provision in Wales, as has been clarified by Assembly Members across this Chamber only recently in a letter to Tony Hall. So, could you clarify exactly what you’ll be saying, and will you be pressing for that £300 million annual additional funding for the BBC in Wales?

The other question I had was: I totally agree that you’re calling for a drama commissioning editor to be based in Wales, but I would like to see that sort of network or team around that commissioning process coming to Wales also, because, as you will know from sitting on the committee, we heard from Equity who said to us that actors are still having to go to London for auditions for programmes that are made in Wales. I mean, it’s absurd that they’re all convening on trains going to London when they—actors—could be having those auditions here in Wales. So, not only do we need the drama commissioning here in Wales, we need the production teams around those processes as well.

I note in your report—your statement, sorry—that provision should be increased for ITV Cymru Wales, especially considering their healthy financial position. I wonder what more you can tell us about how or in what way that provision should be increased.

I’d have to declare an interest in relation to Channel 4 as my brother’s a journalist for Channel 4 News, but I do think that it’s incumbent on us all as AMs to be trying to encourage them to see merit in stories here in Wales based in Wales, as opposed to, perhaps, centring on England as quite often they do. I won’t be winning any brownie points with him by saying that—sorry. [Laughter.]

Also, I’d like to hear your thoughts on the committee structures for the Assembly. I think it’s important we hear from the Government Minister, because how do you see your role, then, in being held to account by this institution in relation to the media in Wales, because we want to show that even though we don’t have the powers over broadcasting, we’ve shown that we have got the status and the backing to be able to hold various broadcasters to account.

And my final question would be on S4C. I think it’s important that we have to reiterate that they should retain their independence, and to ensure that that is always part of any discussion that you have with them as a Minister.