I’d like to welcome the statement. There were two elements I wanted to touch on. One: in terms of the basket of options you’re putting to consultation about reform, I’m disappointed that compulsory voting is not one of the options that the Welsh Government are asking for opinions on. I think requiring people to take part as part of their wider civic duties—the ability to vote is an important one. I realise that’s a contestable view, but I think it would be useful to start a debate on that.

Secondly, I just wanted to touch on the broader transformation that the Minister proposes in terms of the boundaries. Much of the emphasis is on the physical structures, but I just wonder how much thought is going on in terms of the digital transformation that’s going to be underpinning a lot of this. The spread of big data and artificial intelligence and automation is all around us. I’m conscious that there are no end of private companies who are approaching local authorities with off-the-shelf solutions to automate many of their functions to free up resource to put into front-line services, and I think it would be better if we did this in a thought-through, planned way across Wales, rather than individual local authorities doing it in an ad hoc way. It needn’t be a threat, but it will be a change, and a change that we can’t avoid. So, I just wonder if he could say a little bit more about the role of digital in the broader transformation project he had in mind.