Cabinet Secretary, I’m completely delighted by your statement, and also welcome very much the statement by David Melding, a forward-thinking Conservative, if that’s not too much of an oxymoron.

I just want to delve a little bit into history as to why we are where we are today, because it was Gordon Brown in 2006, when he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who announced a UK-wide zero-carbon homes policy, and Britain was the first country to make such a commitment. It was going to make it impossible for any new homes that were built from 2016 to not be ones that were also generating as much energy on site as they would use in heating, hot water, lighting and ventilation. So, it was a fantastic, forward-thinking policy with a green pack that set out the regulatory framework to help to achieve the zero-carbon emissions that we needed to deliver in housing by 2016 and non-domestic buildings by 2019. So, it was tragic that George Osborne axed both these programmes back in July 2015 in a footnote, in the infamous productivity plan attached to his summer budget statement. The head of the UK Green Building Council at the time announced it was the death knell for zero-carbon homes policy. So, I really congratulate the Cabinet Secretary for reinvigorating that policy, because that is absolutely what we need to be doing.

We have a huge housing crisis, as the Cabinet Secretary has already said, and we have to bear in mind that 80 per cent of the houses that people will be living in in 2050 have already been built. So, we don’t need to be building any more inadequate homes that we’re going to have to retrofit. We need to put a stop to that and build the sort of homes that the Cabinet Secretary has outlined. So, I really welcome the idea of working with timber growers, and I hope the Cabinet Secretary is aware of the work of Woodknowledge Wales, where growers, constructors and architects are working together to produce these innovative homes that people are already living in, and we know they work.

On the recycled containers, I haven’t yet visited one, and I look forward to doing so, but I absolutely agree that living in a recycled container is an awful lot better than sleeping on the street, or sofa surfing on people’s sofas. This will give people privacy and dignity and enable them to rebuild their lives and move on to larger housing to suit their circumstances. But you rightly point out that the yuppies in London are already living in these homes, because they can’t afford even a garden shed with ridiculous London prices.

I want to challenge us to address the stranglehold that the big five house builders have on house building in the private sector, because it has already been shown that modular housing can be built within the envelope of what social housing budgets are likely to be—£110,000 for a three-bedroomed home. So, if they can do it, why is it that the big five are continuing to insist that they must have 25 per cent return on their profit before they’ll even get out of bed in the morning?

I think that that needs to change, and we need to change that conversation, and this enables us to demonstrate to them yet again that there are perfectly excellent solutions out there already to allow us to tackle the housing problem in a way that will deliver for people really warm, affordable homes that they’ll be proud to live in.