Thank you for your statement, Cabinet Secretary. If the academy’s responsible for brokering and quality-assuring leadership programmes, it’s obviously going to need to employ staff, I don’t dispute that, but the question I want to ask, though, is what size the academy is likely to be—how many people are likely to be on the board and how many employees will it need? How will the board of the academy be held to account for the performance of the academy? Will we wind up with a similar situation as with health boards, where, despite repeated failings, no-one on the health board appears to be held properly to account?

You also state that you are continuing to consult on the full role and remit of the academy. Can you give any indication as to when the academy’s full role and remit will be finalised and the details announced? My hope is that the academy will ensure that the provision of training is offered evenly across Wales, and I would ask you to confirm whether that will be the case. The Cabinet Secretary states that the Welsh Government has also been improving a range of leadership programmes for heads and middle leaders, but can the Cabinet Secretary please clarify whether the programmes brokered by the academy will replace or sit side by side with those already in existence? If it’s the latter, will the Cabinet Secretary please explain how the new programmes will be co-ordinated with existing ones? I support the Cabinet Secretary’s objective to improve leadership in schools and to give school leaders the support they need, but there is a lack of detail in this statement, and I look forward to hearing that detail in due course. I genuinely hope this academy will succeed, but we’ll see what happens. Thank you.