Thank you, Llywydd. Firstly, I wish to add my support for the statement and for the Minister for his strong work in this regard. I look forward to and very much welcome the opportunity for increased oversight and mandate of the Senedd pertaining to our wider Wales media scrutiny. I also welcome the pledged Plenary debate on the draft charter and the new service licence for Wales that has been pledged, and, as a former member of the BBC broadcasting council for Wales during the last charter review, and Hutton, I was proud to be party to the commissioning of ‘Doctor Who’, amongst many, and the legacy programming that followed has firmly cemented the quality drama agenda within Wales to a global market. However, such high-quality drama, almost like steel, is something that we will strategically continue to propagate, I am sure, in Wales, with universal bilingual programmes such as ‘Hinterland’. So, would the Minister agree with me that we must continue to work to strengthen the draft charter in a number of areas—and I’ll be brief—to develop further the universality of programming and consequent distribution in the regions and globally, that Wales does indeed need a drama commissioner-editor with teeth and the funds to go with it, that he will continue to lobby for no reductions to BBC investment in local services, and also, as has been said by many in the Chamber today, that the portrayal of Wales has to be improved—on, as many have referenced, that we actually do exist within the UK, that we are a nation of outstanding talents, arts, music, literature, comedy, amazing communities, fantastic landscapes, as well as amazing football, and Wales is not a basket case of benefit cheats and scroungers, as is portrayed nationally, and, further, that the overall coverage of political content, events and campaigns—and he’s mentioned the EU referendum—can be vastly improved?

I stand here today, as many do, wearing a white rose in memory of a mother of two and a wife, a campaigner for social cohesion, and the country’s mood is set within a politically harsh landscape, and that’s increasingly one of division, lack of cohesion, and racial hate crime. So, the media does have a critical role here, and I don’t understand how an exact replica of Nazi propaganda is acceptable for public broadcast, especially at a time of charter review, and is being purveyed around. When did the BBC public service mandate of political balance and Ofcom become so overly ridden with caution? Is it over-powerful lawyers, I ask myself? So, I’m sure the Minister is determined, post Leveson, that any future public service charter mandate will regain any perceived loss of teeth and our journalists will continue to investigate and seek the truth. Because the media does have a key role and I, for one, wish to continue to see high-quality political coverage in Wales strengthen and develop and become accessible to all the people of Wales.