Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement. Teaching was a first-choice career for me and I spent 16 very rewarding years in the classroom. I know, from my own experience of working with ITE programmes as a student mentor myself, just how important they are in ensuring that teaching remains as a first-choice career, and also how beneficial it is for practicing teachers to have student teachers in the classroom with them, sharing new ideas.

My question is this: how will the Welsh Government ensure that the new programme will provide trainee teachers with full and detailed training of additional learning needs? And, also, how will the new ALN Bill be built into this when it passes into law?