Can I welcome the change of business to actually resolve the outstanding matter of the chairmanship of CCERA? We’ve done very well and I commend the Members who’ve rotated through the chairmanship, having lost the Chair for a short period, but as anybody knows when you go without a Chair for a long period, you eventually do need to rest your legs. It’ll be good to have somebody in pole position there.

So, as one of the small but perfectly formed group of Welsh Labour and Co-operative Party Assembly Members, now joined, noticeably, by the biggest number ever of UK Labour and Co-operative Party Members in the UK Parliament, we’re keen to celebrate the Co-operatives Fortnight, which showcases the growing movement of co-operatives across the UK and, indeed, across the globe. So, what better way to mark that than to request a debate here in the Senedd, where we can highlight the role of the UK co-operative economy? A debate that would allow us to discuss a real alternative found in the co-operative economy, now valued at £35.7 billion in the UK, with over 226,000 employees in over 6,000 co-ops, covering housing, transport, farmers, food producers, healthcare, social care, renewables and retail, from community enterprises to multimillion-pound businesses. It would be a good chance to hear that there is a different, alternative and successful way of doing business, where the customers and the employee are valued, not just the balance sheet and the shareholders.