Thank you, Minister, for your statement. I share the concerns about the ability of the planning process to actually deal with some of these issues for new housing estates, but in addition to that, of course, we need to look at our permitted development rights, so that people who might need a mobile solution to their broadband needs can also get one. I think we need to be forcing operators to share masts, and in addition to that we need to raise the potential heights of masts that can go ahead without permitted development rights here in Wales, which are obviously much lower than they are in other parts of the UK at the moment. So, I do think there are some things that can be done on that front.

One other opportunity, as well, Minister, that you haven't referred to is the ability to reap some benefits from the public sector broadband aggregation scheme. I've got schools in some of my communities with fantastic broadband speeds, and none of the properties around them can benefit from those speeds because they're not allowed to connect somehow to the cabling that's managed to get the fantastic speeds into the schools. It's absolutely ludicrous. So, we need to be able to overcome some of these challenges, so that where there are high speeds being piped into some of these communities that are getting very poor speeds from the BT Openreach network, there are opportunities to connect.

I've got the misfortune, Minister, as you will know, of having a community with the lowest access to speeds of over 10 megabits per second in my own constituency, in rural Denbighshire, in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, where just 6 per cent of the households there are able to access a decent broadband speed, whilst 90-odd per cent are able to access a better one elsewhere. I've appreciated your interest in my own constituency. One thing that concerns me, though, about your statement is it would appear to me that you've extended BT's contract for works that were already scheduled but they didn't complete. Are BT Openreach going to face a penalty for failing to complete the work that they promised to complete by 31 December? Because that's not clear from your statement.

The other thing that concerns me is that you're making this statement now, but we knew what the end date of the contract was going to be. It was going to be 31 December last year. Why on earth didn't you make a statement before 31 December to allow people to put together possible bids, to think about these things so that we don't have this long waiting period now while we're waiting for other potential suppliers to come forward with ideas? I think it is disappointing that you haven't brought something forward sooner than today.