I won’t be speaking for very long, but just to endorse much of what’s been mentioned already by a number of Members, which is what is important as a result of the process that we’ve gone through in terms of the charter is what is being taken action on in Wales. There are threats facing BBC Wales and broadcasting in Wales, without a doubt, as a result of the charter that we’ll have in moving forward. There’s no doubt that the charter offers better security and a much better settlement than we had feared early in the process—Wales has much more of a voice and certainly in looking at the BBC through and through, there is much more security in terms of independence and less intervention by the Government. These are principles that are at my core, as somebody who has spent most of my adult life working in the BBC.

But the truth is that only one impact is important as a result of any review of the way the BBC operates, and that is what all of us as viewers and listeners to BBC services experience, and what our constituents all over Wales receive from what they pay for, at the end of the day, through their licence. There is a need, we know, for the BBC to do much more—