I’d like to thank Vikki Howells for her very important questions, in particular the significance of the heritage sector insofar as attaining skills is concerned, because I was recently pleased—I’m not sure whether this is for disclosure just yet, but I’m going to say it anyway—to support an application worth many hundreds of thousands of pounds for skills training within the heritage sector, which I know my colleagues in the Department for Education and Skills as well are very pleased with. It will see opportunities created for young people from disadvantaged communities to take part in heritage projects to gain the skills necessary for careers within the heritage sector, and I am very keen to make sure that, as we move to the future, we move beyond the point of talking merely about the heritage sector and the institutions within the sector surviving, and we actually start talking about how they are thriving. That means we’ve got to get more money, more skills and more expertise developed within the sector, and we can do that by bringing them together.

I don’t see why—and it doesn’t require any sort of a merger of institutions, but in terms of the outward facing activities, it would benefit from far closer, meaningful collaboration—we couldn’t have people, for example, with great skills from the library operating in Cathays Park at the museum, or vice versa, working together to promote those unique skills that many people employed in the institutions have, and which simply are not evident in other parts of western Europe. And I think it would be brilliant to be able to promote those skills and those career opportunities right across Wales, because the Member is right—there are some part of Wales, there are some communities in Wales, where the national institutions are not present, but where Cadw may be present. There are some where Cadw, the national museum and the national library are not physically present. And in those circumstances, and those communities, it’s essential that local museums, local libraries and local archives are given support and have strong national leadership, with the skills to be able to back them up, and to make heritage real, tangible and accessible for all people in all communities, regardless of where they live.

In terms of some of the work that’s being done on a national basis, I think the pan-Wales heritage interpretation project was a great success, but there is no doubt we need to do more in terms of promoting our industrial heritage. This is one area—I know Jeremy Miles spoke for 89.9 seconds last week about the value of industrial heritage in many communities. There is no doubt in my mind that we can and could do more if we lever in more resources, grow skills within the sector and grow the number of job opportunities that there are.