Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:45 pm on 14 March 2017.
May I welcome the Minister’s statement? He will know that I was one of the joint signatories to the letter to him asking him not to settle for unambitious plans. So, I am pleased to hear such a clear statement today on the issue of ambition.
May I ask two questions of you? The first is on the relationship between this process and the process of introducing the new strategy. This process will commence now, I suppose, before the new strategy is introduced. What will happen when the new strategy is published? It may be that a sense of urgency emerges from the detail of that strategy that will have an impact on this process. That’s the first question. The second question is: you’ve mentioned how important it is to collaborate between the Welsh Government and local government. Do you also see this process as an opportunity to introduce a new impetus to sharing best practice between local authorities, because we do understand how important that is in terms of understanding what’s happened and worked elsewhere and to appreciate the scale of the challenge facing us?