Well, Dirprwy Lywydd, as I explained in my statement on 4 October, I spent a great deal of time over the summer in visiting all 22 local authorities in Wales, meeting leaders and chief executives. I’ve met with trade unions, I’ve met with third sector organisations and I meet with the WLGA. I’ve done my best to be out and about in all of that.

The timescale for the next stage of the discussion is the rest of this calendar year, when we need to look at the detail underlying the big-picture pattern I was able to announce on 4 October. The prize for local authorities that I try and remind them of is that I would like to be in a position to argue for a local government Bill in the second-year legislative programme of this Assembly. It will be a competitive bidding round, you can be sure, with lots of Cabinet colleagues with ideas they want to get into the programme. I won’t get a place for a local government Bill to do all the things we would like to do unless I have an agreement that I can take forward. I want to get that by the beginning of the next calendar year, and then I want to move into the next phase.