On Friday, I hosted a meeting, a mini summit, on climate change with 16 and 17-year-olds in the Tŷ Hywel chamber, and it illustrated just how well-equipped 16 and 17-year-olds can be to engage in political matters, because their ideas for changing the world and for delivering on Wales’s climate change obligations were absolutely excellent. So, I very much welcome that proposal and I hope that it will be widely supported.

I think that I also very much like the section of your White Paper on distributed leadership—‘What contribution can I make to resolving this matter?’, which everybody should need to be asking themselves—and the ethos that you are proposing, that we have learning organisations, where the needs of local people and communities are put at the heart of decision making, based on a co-productive relationship. And, in that context, I just wanted to ask you about how this White Paper might address improving our relationship with the third sector, because the auditor general’s recent report is highlighting that local authorities have a rather inconsistent approach to working with the third sector, and they don’t seem to have a methodical, data-driven, accurate quality approach when they’re awarding contracts, which is somewhat worrying. I also reflect on the testimony of the NEA, National Energy Action, saying how difficult it is to work with both many local authorities, and, indeed, with many health boards, to ensure that their expertise is properly used to ensure that people understand how they can improve energy efficiency and reduce their bills. So, I just wondered if you could tell us how the White Paper addresses the need to ensure all local authorities are as methodical in all the other issues you lay out and also in their approach to working with the third sector.