I raise two items of business. First, I call for a statement acknowledging that yesterday marked the beginning of the tenth UK National Apprenticeship Week, not to recycle the arguments we’ve already had here around the levy, but the broader issues that are being brought to the fore. For example, many charities, like the National Deaf Children’s Society, are disappointed, putting it politely, that apprenticeships won’t be covered by the proposed new additional learning needs legislation as it currently stands, and such as new research by Centrica, owner of British Gas, which found that nearly one in two young people would be attracted to work for a company with opportunities across the UK, compared to just over one in four young people in Wales, who didn’t believe this was a priority for them. Although university is still viewed as the ideal start, and most people surveyed don’t view apprenticeships as the best starting point to reach senior positions, 90 per cent of Centrica’s apprentices, for example—I’m sure that’s reciprocated elsewhere—feel better equipped for the world of work than friends who went to college or university.

Secondly, and finally, I call for at the very least an oral statement, and preferably a Government debate, on ‘Moving North Wales Forward’, the Welsh Government vision for north Wales and the north-east Wales metro. This is a vitally important matter for north Wales. We’ve been waiting many, many months for the Welsh Government to detail its response to the proposals that have been made. Instead, we just got a written statement last Thursday full of platitudes, such as

‘Modernising transport in North Wales…will contribute to the achievement of our well-being objectives’, and

‘There are strong links between the economy of North East Wales and that of North West England’.

We didn’t need a statement to tell us that. And we had recycled announcements such as on the bus summit, which, vitally important though it is, we’ve had statement after statement after statement in the Chamber, and the proposals for Deeside and Wrexham that we’ve heard many times also.

The only reference to the rest of north Wales was the third Menai crossing, which is, in fact, a recycled consultation, because for the last one, nine years ago, the recommendations were ignored.

Finally, and most importantly, it refers to making

‘the case to the UK Government for a fairer share of rail funding’, knowing full well that that’s predicated upon the growth vision for north Wales and Growth Track 360, which were presented to the UK Government early last summer and are critical to whether the UK Government can invest in north Wales electrification and other matters, as the Minister well knows. Simply saying that you will look at

‘regional arrangements associated with public sector reform and Growth Bids’ as they develop isn’t good enough. Until we know how the Welsh Government is going to respond to those proposals, we don’t know how this can go forward.