May I welcome the Minister’s statement this afternoon and the fact that he’s taking a fresh look at the WESPs, and wish Aled Roberts well in his work? I hope that he hasn’t been handed a hospital pass by the Minister, and I say that for one reason, namely that his predecessor, Leighton Andrews, when he was discussing these issues in the last Assembly, always talked about the possibility of turning the strategic plans into statutory plans, unless the local authorities worked with Government. The Minister didn’t mention that during his statement this afternoon, and I would ask him, therefore: is it still an option for Government to make these WESPs statutory plans if the councils do not collaborate?

Now, the Minister has mentioned collaboration with councils as a way forward, and I very much hope that that is successful. But I would like to return to the issue of Llangennech school as an example, and to return to the case of the BBC earlier on, of how not to do these things, but that wasn’t from the point of view of the local council. The Welsh in education strategic plan for Carmarthenshire specifically mentioned that the council was working closely with staff and governing bodies in dual-stream schools in Carmarthenshire in order to turn them into Welsh-medium schools. That was the objective of the WESP. That was accepted unanimously by the cabinet in Carmarthenshire back in July of 2014, when the council was, of course, led by the Labour Party. In the light of that, governors at the schools in Llangennech—the infant and junior schools—approved it, the community council supported the proposal, the council scrutiny committee supported the proposal, the cabinet supported it—although that was Plaid Cymru-led at that point—and the full council had also supported the proposal. Despite that, there are still people saying that the proper processes hadn’t been followed and that local people had been ignored. Well, as far as I can see, the county council, in the case of Llangennech, and in their Welsh in education strategic plan, have followed all statutory steps and all steps required by Government. Therefore, it is disappointing that the Government wasn’t more willing to stand by the council in this case. How can we avoid in future this kind of situation arising again—when there is a WESP that is approved by the council and all proper steps are taken, and then some—some—people try to make this a linguistic argument?