Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary, and also, as Janet Finch-Saunders said earlier, for the tone that you’ve set in this statement. It’s slightly different to that of your predecessor. You appear—I don’t mean Jane Hutt; I mean your local government predecessor—slightly more to be listening. That is really to be welcomed, and I think that has come out in the tone of this statement today. Can I ask you—? I really do welcome the way that you’ve moved on from the previous plans—from what I saw as being flawed local government reorganisation. I know there were different views on that, but I think we would have lost a lot of what was good about the system without getting the benefits that we thought.

You do in your statement say that you do not rule out—to paraphrase that—the combined model of local government if local authorities can demonstrate that a combined authority approach would help deliver shared objectives. I know that the combined model was something that my local council in Monmouthshire and the south-east area authorities were very keen on, but it was ruled out by your predecessor, as I said before. At what point would you ascertain that those local authorities have demonstrated that that type of model is something that you and the Welsh Government would accept, if they did want to go down that route?