I thank David Melding for welcoming the statement and also for his questions. I was very clear to officials that I wanted ambitious, but achievable targets. I hear what you say about Scotland, and I obviously realise they do have a target of 1 GW of locally owned generation, for instance, by 2020, and our target is 2030. But I don’t think you can compare, and I think you alluded to that. You can’t directly compare Scotland with us: they’ve got a larger land area; they’ve got a greater renewable energy resource than we do in Wales. But I think it is right that we do have these very ambitious targets to ensure that that transformational change speeds up now. I think the Paris agreement really has focused everybody’s minds. I know, ahead of Conference of the Parties 23 in Bonn, which is being held in November, energy, and renewable energy, is going to be one of the main points of discussion.

You referred to the community ownership, and we have been supporting the community renewable energy sector for several years now. I think it started back in 2010, but, again, we need to continue to do that, but we need to up our game. I do think in the discussions that I’ve had with commercial developers, for instance, that they really welcome the opportunity of taking forward new projects in partnership with local communities. So, I will be consulting, I hope to do so before the end of this year, to start that process.

You referred to heat not being part of our target, and I mentioned in my opening remarks that we’ve worked with expert organisations to develop our thinking around the energy targets. The UK Committee on Climate Change has peer reviewed our evidence paper and are very broadly content with our approach. It was from those discussions that it was decided that the target shouldn’t have heat in it. But, obviously, as we look at transport particularly using more electricity, and heat is the main user of electricity in Wales, we do need to make sure that our policy is correct. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, I will be driving that forward.

In relation to tidal power, it is imperative we know what the UK Government are going to do on Hendry. I’m not referring to any specific project, because, obviously, I have planning responsibilities also. But, I constantly write to the UK Government, and I keep getting responses saying, ‘In due course,’ which means nothing to me. Hendry reported in January. I last wrote to Richard Harrington who, since the election, is the Minister responsible, a month ago—I’m still awaiting a reply—asking for a timeline, because I think it’s really important that we know where the UK Government are coming from on this. You heard the First Minister say in questions today that he’s very concerned that it’s not now going ahead, but I do want to assure Members that I am pressing the UK Government, and any help that anybody can give me from the benches opposite would be very much appreciated.