Thank you very much, Llyr, for those points. I think what’s really important for education reform as we move forward is if we can continue to try and develop this consensus across the Chamber about a broad direction of travel. I think that’s what the education system needs more than anything at the moment. So, your ongoing commitment to the Furlong reforms is very much one that I welcome, and I appreciate that.

I think it is only fair for you to raise the question around the pace of the introduction of some of these recommendations from Furlong. I think that’s a very fair point, which is why I stressed the point about pace in my statement this afternoon. I think we can move more quickly than we have, and we will need to do that.

You asked for a timetable: the consultation, as I said, will start on Monday of next week, and it will run for seven weeks. It’s quite a short consultation period, because you will be aware that draft accreditation actually went out for pre-consultation consultation in the spring of this year. So, a lot of work has already been done. This is not going to be a surprise to people, because some of that pre-legislative scrutiny-type work was carried out in the summer. So, it’s a seven-week consultation. We expect the institutions to give an indication to us early in the new year of their intention to look for accreditation. Maybe there will be new people who will express an interest in looking for accreditation. So, we expect that in the new year. We want courses to be accredited and marketed in the summer of 2018, for initial adoption and training in 2019. So, that’s the timetable we’re working to, and it’s a really tight timetable, which is one of the reasons why we need the consultation to be done quickly this autumn term.

You asked about what we can do to recruit and retain teachers. I think you’re right; I think we need to stress much more clearly the importance of teaching as a profession of first choice, and we want our best and our brightest graduates to come in to that profession. I think there are a number of reasons why, perhaps, that’s not happening at the moment and that’s why we need to engage in this reform of our initial teacher education because it’s not as good as it could be. It’s not providing people consistently with the skills they need for a successful move into the classroom. So, this is part of that programme to raise the status. I’ll be making further announcements this autumn on different ways in which we hope to be able to focus on good practice, to celebrate that in Welsh schools, to hold up those that are doing a great job and I hope to make announcements about that in the future. You will be aware that we are carrying out a bureaucracy project at the moment. We will be going out with the first-ever questionnaire of all teachers and teaching staff, so I can hear directly from the profession how they feel about their jobs and their status at the moment: whether they’re getting the support and the training that they need and whether there are things that they are being asked to do that don’t add value to the children in their classrooms. So, this is all part of a programme to try and ensure that we’re better at listening to teachers and responding to them, whilst at the same time expecting very high standards from the profession. That’s why we’re working on our professional standards that will go out to consultation in the new year for adoption shortly after that.

You raised the issue of pay. Of course, I’m engaged in ongoing discussions with the Westminster Government on the devolution of pay and conditions for teachers because I do believe there is an opportunity, should those powers be devolved to Wales, that we can align pay and conditions with some of this agenda. Those discussions are ongoing because I do not want those powers devolved to us in a way that financially disadvantages the Welsh Government, which is already facing some significant financial challenges because of settlements from Westminster.

You mentioned the issue of Teach First. As I said in my statement, I’m looking at a variety of ways in which we could have alternative entries into the profession. Earlier on, your leader said that we needed to evaluate, do what worked and ditch what doesn’t work. So, I am looking very carefully at all the current programmes we have and whether Welsh Government expenditure in those areas is resulting in high-quality teachers teaching in Wales. That’s what I’m engaged in at the moment, so we can make sure that the money that we are spending does result in high-quality teachers in front of our children in classrooms. I’ll be making announcements on how best we can take that forward shortly.

On leadership, the leadership academy is on course for a launch later on in this year. I’m hoping to have provision up and running by this time next year, so, actually, people being able to access courses, support and development opportunities by this time next year.