Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. These amendments further strengthen and clarify the existing duty in the Bill on local authorities to keep additional learning provision under review.

Amendment 39 requires local authorities, as part of their wider duties, to consider the sufficiency of their arrangements for meeting the additional learning needs of children and young people in their area, and to specifically consider the size and capability of the workforce that is available.

It was always our intention that workforce considerations would be a fundamental aspect of the operation of section 59, and this amendment makes express provision for it. I consider that this is a very appropriate way of explicitly incorporating a workforce planning duty into the Bill. It responds directly to a commitment made by the former portfolio holder at Stage 2 to work towards an amendment on workforce planning.

Amendment 40 ensures that local authorities are under a duty to take all reasonable steps to remedy any insufficiency in their arrangements for meeting ALN identified through their section 59 reviews. It amends section 59(4) of the Bill, which resulted from an amendment of Llyr Gruffydd’s at Stage 2. That subsection requires local authorities, if in their review they have identified an insufficiency in the availability of additional learning provision in Welsh, to take all reasonable steps to remedy the matter.

Amendment 40 seeks to ensure that the duty extends to any identified insufficiency in their ALN arrangements. It retains the effect of Llyr’s original amendment. I would urge Members to support them.