Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I’d like to thank the Cabinet Secretary for his statement this afternoon. It’s very welcome, and I’m certainly keen to have further statements of this sort. I certainly appreciate that we are in uncertain times, following the EU referendum result and the US election, but I also do think that there are exciting opportunities for new and existing UK international deals, which Wales must seize. Now, I’m pleased that, following your trade mission, you have indicated that there will be a step change in approach, which will ensure that Wales reaps the benefits from being part of UK plc, which is now the fastest growing economy in the G8, I think it’s important to point out.

Between 2015 and 2016, there has been a fall in the value of Welsh exports by over £0.5 billion, and a fall in exports to the EU countries by nearly 11 per cent. In contrast, the UK trade statistics have reported that, between quarter 2 and quarter 3 of 2016, overall UK exports of goods to EU countries increased by £2.3 billion. So, I would be grateful if you could outline your views on: if overall exports from the UK to the EU have risen, have Wales’s exports fallen?

I was also concerned to learn that the latest export figures for Wales show that export values to the USA dropped by £203 million during this period. Given the fact that the US market represents Wales’s largest trading partner, followed by Germany, can I ask you, Cabinet Secretary, what specific measures you are putting in place to reverse this, I’d say, concerning trend with our main trading partner?

And finally, I raised with the First Minister on Friday during scrutiny of the First Minister that Nicola Sturgeon, speaking at the SNP conference last month, had said that she was doubling staff in some Scottish Government offices and opening new offices in other parts of the world. When I asked the First Minister whether Welsh Government had similar intentions he did indicate that that would be the case. So, I would be grateful if you could perhaps outline a little bit more about what plans you have for increasing staff in international offices and also to give us more detail generally about what Welsh Government’s international offices do in Europe and in other parts of the world?