Only in Wales could the answer to the exam question ‘How we as a nation become a world leader of innovation’ be the establishment of not just a committee—not even a committee—but a sub-committee, which is what Research and Innovation Wales is in relation to this new body. Can the Cabinet Secretary confirm that this is diametrically opposed to the advice to the Government’s own Innovation Advisory Council for Wales, and indeed of two reports of global experts in innovation policy, which recommended, in contrast, the creation of a dedicated innovation body for Wales? Could she say where this leaves the Reid review on research and innovation in Wales, set up as a result of the Hazelkorn review, whose purpose, and I quote, was to provide

‘advice in the form of a report to the Welsh Government on the governance…regulation and oversight of Government funded research and innovation in Wales’?

If the Welsh Government has already come up with the answer, why ask Professor Reid the question?