I thank the Member for the questions. I agree with his starting point that people who work in our local authorities in Wales are, by and large, people with families, with children who go to school, with mortgages to pay, and the uncertainty has not been good for them, and that’s why I’m very keen to try and create a consensus about a way ahead. If the committee choose to take an interest in this topic, I think that would be very helpful, and I would look forward to receiving their interest and their advice, if they are able to find the time to do that.

Dirprwy Lywydd, I think one of the strengths of the model that I’ve outlined is that it shouldn’t lead to wholesale changes in the way that people are employed. It seems to me that, by and large, front-line staff will remain employed by the authorities they are employed by today. We would expect—I would expect—that, at a management level, you would have more regional arrangements in order to be able to deploy resources across the regional arrangements that we are proposing. The detail of this is for the next few months, to discuss with trade unions, employers and others with an interest, and, certainly, from my perspective, it will be a topic in which I will retain a very strong interest.