Sorry. Well, in that case, I apologise and I congratulate the Government on following Scotland. [Laughter.] I should’ve been a diplomat, really.

But the regional and constituency variations, of course, are disguised within that global figure. If we take my region of Mid and West Wales, against the Welsh average of 89.4 per cent for 24 Mbps, it goes down, for Ceredigion, to 58 per cent; Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, 61 per cent; Montgomeryshire, 61 per cent; Brecon and Radnor, 63 per cent; and Dwyfor Meirionnydd, 74 per cent. For Llanelli, it’s 92 per cent and that’s the only constituency in the entire region that exceeds the Welsh national average. I do think that this is totally unacceptable in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Businesses depend, overwhelmingly today, for their success, and Wales depends, for a great deal of its prosperity, upon connectivity at the right speed and it’s holding us back in so many different ways.

One point that has not been made in the debate today that I think deserves some attention is broadband penetration by socio-economic group in Wales. According to the Ofcom report in 2015—which I appreciate will have been, to an extent, overtaken by recent developments—but in 2015, only 63 per cent of adults on household incomes below £17,500 a year had taken up broadband, in comparison with 92 per cent above that £17,500-a-year threshold. So, digital exclusion for those at the lower end of the income scale is a reality of which I think we should collectively be ashamed, in this Assembly, that we’ve got into this state now. It can’t come too soon that we should improve these statistics.

Russell George in his speech referred to a groaning postbag, or digital postbag, of complaints, and although he probably gets more from Montgomeryshire than I do, I do get some from his county, but also of course from other counties within my region. It is extraordinary really how, within a very short distance of a relatively urban area, people can be almost totally bereft of connectivity. I’ve stayed at the Waun Wyllt hotel at Five Roads near Llanelli, for example, which is just a stone’s throw from Llanelli—unable to get any mobile signal at all. It’s a big problem, I think, for many rural hotels and other businesses, that their businesses are held back by the lack of what is now regarded as an absolute necessity for modern living, not just for business purposes, but also for human interaction in so many different ways.

I have a complaint from a constituent in Llanwrda in Carmarthenshire who says he’s been waiting for fibre for many years, but his BT internet speed remains a pitiful 0.2 Mbps. He says: ‘I realise installing fibre is a difficult project, but on nine ocassions, Openreach or Superfast Cymru have given me a timeframe but then rolled it back when they’ve been unable to produce. In June 2016, my installation date was moved yet again and became September 2016’—and he still doesn’t have a connection, even now. I realise that that’s just an individual case, but if it was just one individual case, not one of many, then we could ignore it—not ignore it, but at least we could put it into perspective. But because there are so many of these instances, even now, I believe that the Government not only should be held to account for its past failures, but also for its present lack of urgency in rolling out a proper superfast broadband connectivity programme for the whole of Wales.