Well, I’m very grateful to Members for their support of the open data agenda, which is evident across the Chamber. I think there may be a little bit of confusion between what we mean by open data and open Government in this context and publication in general. I take the point about publication that people have made. I feel duty-bound—I’m sure the Llywydd won’t mind my saying so—to say that the idea of publishing an oral statement before it’s made orally is, obviously, problematic in many regards, and the whole point of an oral statement is you make it orally in the Chamber. I just wanted to reiterate that point, and that’s not at all connected to data.

I thought that Adam Price made a very good point in his example. The idea of open data is that you have access to the base data in an open and accessible way that allows you to collate it in different ways to come to different conclusions. So, the example is a good one. I’m not suggesting for one minute that the Government has this completely right, and one of the reasons I wanted to bring forward this debate today was to discuss openly with Members what we mean by that and to ascertain, as we have readily ascertained, that, actually, everybody agrees with the agenda. There are nuances around it, but we all agree that the base data should be made as accessible as possible in order for people to draw a variety of conclusions from it. We do have to do that in a proportionate way, of course. We have been working with public sector bodies, with participation, for example, in the Cardiff city region open data group, and meeting with local authorities and the Wales Audit Office across Wales.

We want to encourage others within the Welsh public sector, and wider public sector, to open up access and reuse our data, but also make their data more freely available. We are going to be giving consideration to the appropriateness of a non-statutory code of practice for the public sector in Wales, to enable us to work collaboratively with public sector bodies. Successful trials of that guidance might well lead to a statutory code of practice, but that is something we want to produce together with our local government partners in a spirit of co-production, so that we understand and they understand where we are now, and where we can go to easily and fluidly in the future without an enormous cost to that—not in financial terms, but in terms of the person power needed to do it.

Janet Finch-Saunders alluded to the procurement processes. I absolutely agree with her that adapting our procurement processes will encourage our suppliers to publish their data openly and make use of our open data sources to make that a more transparent process. [Interruption.]