Thank you, Llywydd. Thank you for your statement. I am a little bit concerned, actually, at the number of properties—I hadn’t realised it was going to be quite so high—that were going to be outside the current scheme. Many of those properties, as you will know from our correspondence in the past, are in my constituency. Some of them are paying through the nose, frankly, for satellite broadband services, which are very, very expensive and pretty unreliable for those particular families. So, we are facing this digital disadvantage, and I’m very concerned about that. You have given this commitment to having a look at the ultrafast connectivity voucher system for businesses. I know that we’ve got the Access Broadband Cymru scheme as well, which also encourages the highest speed take-up. You haven’t said whether you’re considering looking again at how that operates and neither have you said whether you’re prepared to look at allowing people who were early beneficiaries of that scheme, perhaps five or six years ago, when the criteria were just to get up to 2 Mbps, and whether those people can now reapply under the new scheme in order to take advantage of the higher speeds that might be available. Perhaps you could just comment on that.

I noted also with interest your reference to the fact that some landowners have been obstructive. This is a regular excuse that I’m hearing from BT Openreach, but of course every time I ask them which landowners, they’re unable to tell me. It’s because, frankly, it is just an excuse in some cases from them, and there aren’t actually any obstructions at all from local landowners. In fact, when I’ve tried to nail them down on this in my own constituency, it’s been quite clear that there’s been no problem at all with landowners; they just haven’t bothered making sufficient effort to contact them or their land agents.

Just one final point as well: you mentioned the permitted development rights that many of the utilities companies already enjoy. Of course, the planning system is entirely devolved here in Wales. There’s no reason whatsoever why the Welsh Government couldn’t extend permitted development rights to telecoms operators. I hope very much that you will, in order that we can overcome some of these problems. This is something that should have happened many years ago, frankly, and we shouldn’t still be talking about these things today. What we need is some concerted action on this, if our constituents—people like mine in Moelfre and Llanarmon yn Ial and other places—are going to get access to these sorts of services, which frankly are basic services now, particularly for businesses, but not only businesses, for families too, in terms of their entertainment systems and the learning opportunities that the internet provides.