Can I thank the Member for his questions? The point that the Member made concerning the availability of affordable public transport is, perhaps, the most important point made. I'm reminded of a pretty terrifying statistic from the Mersey-Dee area, where 20 per cent of young, unemployed people are unable to get to job interviews because they cannot afford public transport, or cannot access public transport in order to get to those interviews—too many young people, and that's in an urban area. Far too many young people are being shut out of the jobs market, because they cannot access opportunities to even be interviewed for jobs.

So, I encourage anybody with an interest in breaking down that particular barrier to young people's employment to take part in the consultation that's taking place right now on youth concessionary fares. But more needs to be done and will be done. I think deregulation in 1986 was nothing short of a disaster for local bus services across Wales and the rest of Britain, but next year, reforms will be brought forward and radical change will be proposed to make bus services better serve the people of Wales, rather than profit motive.

The Member rightly asked whether I think enough financial resource is being invested in bus services across Wales right now to make them fit for purpose, fit for the passengers that they are meant to serve. I'd say, 'yes'; I do believe that enough resource is being invested right now—something to the tune of £0.25 billion a year. There are approximately 100 million passenger journeys taken on bus services, so you can estimate how much is spent as a subsidy on each passenger. But what I think is essential is that we get more bang for our buck from bus services and that bus service providers do more to drive up the number of fare-paying passengers as well, to make themselves more sustainable.

Are we taking a sufficiently holistic approach to integrating transport? I would suggest, until recently, perhaps not, but with the creation of Transport for Wales, with our determined focus on the creation of integrated travel, on active travel, I think we are heading in the right direction, but far more needs to be done, and I think in particular in the area of encouraging people to take up active travel alternatives to motor vehicles.

We're revising the road safety framework to address one of the key concerns that particularly young people have in using active travel as an alternative to bus services or other forms of motor vehicles. It's quite telling that, up to secondary school, the majority of people will walk to school, whereas at secondary school they take a bus. Now, in many instances, schools are too far from homes for people to walk, but they're not necessarily too far to cycle. A major barrier is the fear, not just of those young people, but also the fear of their parents that they may not be safe on the roads. In order to address this, yes, more needs to be done in terms of educating young people and their parents, but also there needs to be better and more consistent training of young people in not just cycling safety and proficiency, but also in walking safety, as well. This is something that we are seeking to deliver through the newly revised road safety framework. This will cover all young people from the age of three to 16.