Can I thank Dai Lloyd for his questions and his contribution? Given that this is an extensive report and many Members have not had an opportunity today to read it in full yet or to absorb the detail, I’d be more than happy to bring forward a debate in Government time to examine this report in more detail. Scrutiny of the report will also include further discussions with the national bodies and organisations to whom it is most applicable.

I’ll run through some of the general points and then the more specific points that the Member raised. In terms of wholesale challenges, the report does make recommendations for the Welsh Books Council to develop proposals to alleviate the current impact of wholesale book sales and also to accommodate future likely trends. I think this is absolutely essential if we are to maintain, particularly on high streets in rural areas, the presence of small independent bookshops.

The panel recognised the great success story of ‘papurau bro’ and recommended that it should be retained as a Welsh Government responsibility, given the various examples that the Member has already outlined and the evidence that was provided by members of the public and stakeholders. It’s quite clear that the current arrangements are fit for purpose and should not be changed.

I do hope that all three organisations will be able to respond constructively to the report in the coming weeks. I am also hopeful, as I said to Suzy Davies, to meet with all three together, collectively, to discuss how we can take forward the recommendations. The steps that the report sets out are designed primarily to ensure three things. One is to foster excellence where it’s already embedded. Secondly, to allow all of our supporting organisations to focus on what they do best. And then thirdly, to ensure that activities that are currently not being delivered to the best that we could expect are moved to the best place for them to be delivered effectively for publishers, for writers and for readers.

There is detail about the challenges that the Member has asked about within the report. They are quite extensive, and along with the challenges that we currently face, there are clear recommendations on how they can be overcome. And, again, they’re detailed in the report. I should also add that one recommendation that is made by the panel is to conduct a further review, in five years’ time, and I think that would be valuable, given the fast-changing nature of the sector and the need to ensure that the sector itself receives appropriate support from Government, but also that writers, publishers and readers are receiving appropriate support from the national organisations. So, I’d be happy to say that in five years’ time I think that it should be subject to a further review.