I concur with the comments that have just been made that it’s a fundamental rethink that we need in terms of investment strategy but also that long-term durability of investment and turning the thing on its head so that we do see the investment flow into the Valleys.

But I would like to suggest two things. One is that the metro, for me, has always been more than the metro as currently perceived. If we’re going to have real connectivity, it has to be metro plus. It has to be things to do with connecting those communities that will never be on light rails or old-fashioned heavy rails. It is the superfast buses connecting communities—not just up and down, but across communities; it is universal ticketing; and it is affordability as well.

I would also like to say that we need to rethink, to pick up on the idea posed by Adam Price there, how we not only connect people so that they can travel out of the Valleys but come into the Valleys, and that means putting the investment into small businesses and microbusinesses that are rooted in those Valleys and then how we put that long-term investment to grow and grow and grow them with deep roots in those Valleys. Too long we’ve been telling our youngsters, ‘If you want to get on in life, you need to move out.’ Let’s flip it on its head and say, ‘If you want to get on in life, you can stay here and have a prosperous future.’ But my question to the Minister is as simple as this: will he make sure that, in doing so, he doesn’t chuck the baby out with the bathwater, with things such as Flying Start, apprenticeship schemes—although how we are going to sustain the funding for them now with our decision in recent days, I don’t know—with things like the Sony concept there, bringing schools and young people in to teach them about digital industries, driven by the private sector down in Pencoed—how do we build on those sorts of things, and will he be engaging directly with the leaders of local authorities, including those in my areas in Bridgend and Rhondda Cynon Taf?