Diolch. The draft royal charter and the draft BBC framework agreement arrive at a time when both the National Assembly for Wales and the Government now have a formal consultation role in the BBC and its future. So, I think it’s crucial that we use this role, created in the recent memorandum of understanding, to ensure that Wales’s voice and the concerns of Welsh audiences are heard at the heart of Government and here in the Senedd. To a large extent, that is recognised through the recent creation of the new Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee, which I am proud to Chair, but it brings with it a new and serious responsibility to fully scrutinise the way the BBC is funded, as well as the way it delivers its services in Wales. And now that we’ve mentioned the Welsh representative on the board, I’m sure that’s something that, as a committee, we can discuss further—it happens with the Auditor General for Wales. I was one of the Assembly Members who appointed the previous auditor general, and that’s something I’m sure we can set a precedent with with this new committee.

But the charter has come at a time when the debate about how life in Wales is reflected by the BBC, along with its portrayal across the network, comes to the fore once again. My committee will be pleased to have Tony Hall in to scrutinise him, as well as BBC Wales, so that they can answer us directly as to what they are doing here in Wales. As has been said by the Minister, we have received a commitment of additional funding across Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but, as yet, no specifics or detail as to what that money will look like, and we must be assured—we must be assured—as the Minister said that this is additional to what Wales will be getting, not created from savings that BBC Wales has to find in the licence fee at the moment.

So, ensuring that Wales has a meaningful presence on the BBC has been given fresh impetus by the corporation’s recent loss of—I’m sure some of you will be sick of hearing it by now—one of its flagships, ‘The Great British Bake Off’. I watch it sometimes, but I’m not obsessive like some people, but it has animated many people’s minds. If it cannot afford to hold on to something that has grown as central to part of the BBC’s make up, can it therefore continue to be all things to all people or then risk losing audiences, pushing them away from the BBC? I think this is an important question we need to address for Wales as well.

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