I thank the Minister for her statement. The active travel plan is a good initiative in terms of its objectives. There could be long-term savings in the NHS budget if people in Wales are basically fit, as Dai Lloyd asserted, and, ideally, physical activity should be nurtured from an early age. On these principles I think we agree. The problem lies, as ever, in how well the aims of the active travel plan can actually be delivered. Sometimes, the developments of modern living will tend to militate against this effective delivery. For instance, we can encourage schoolchildren to walk to school on a given day as part of this plan, but when we have school reorganisations that lead to the closure of local schools, we are left with the prospect of many children having to use vehicular transport to travel to school. To walk more than three miles to school would surely be too far and too time-consuming on a regular basis. So, you'd be unlikely to be encouraging regular walking to school in that instance. The same problem applies to workers whose workplace is many miles away, and, unfortunately, the tendency of modern life has been for people to travel further and further to their place of work.

Of course, your plan also covers cycling, which may be more viable in the long term. It will be difficult, nevertheless, to overcome these rather fundamental obstacles, but it will be interesting to see what progress can be made with the active travel plan, and I will endeavour to monitor it closely. Thank you.