In terms of safety, one of the most inhibiting factors that prevents many people from travelling to work or travelling to school or travelling to services by foot or on a bike is the fear of fast-moving traffic. Twenty-miles-per-hour zones have proven to be very successful around schools. These are available for local authorities to develop if they so wish. It's certainly something that we have encouraged. But in order to really have the change, to really see the behavioural change that I think all Members in this Chamber would wish to see, we have to ensure that the next generation of responsible adults see active travel as a priority means of moving from one point to another.

The data that's highlighted by the Member does regrettably show a decrease in the number of adults that are walking regularly once a week in Wales. Likewise, there is a worrying decline in the number of young people who are walking. What we have noticed is that in terms of young people, it appears that parental concern over safety is a major factor, because the percentage walking with an adult actually appears to be quite stable if not rising, whereas there is a reduction in the number of young people who are walking either with friends or by themselves. So, there is certainly, it appears, a concern over safety—whether it be road safety or whether it be safety insofar as children being allowed out without their parents is concerned. This requires attention, I think, within the school estate, and I'm certainly doing work to look at whether school closures, consolidating the school estate, has had an impact on this data.

In addition, we've developed a toolkit for school routes, and this work has enabled schools to be able to assess and audit the walking routes that young people take to school. This is something that is an ongoing piece of work, but it will contribute, I think, to changing perceptions of active travel and to encourage young people to take up bikes or to take up walking, particularly to go to and from school. The actual data that concerns primary and secondary schools where children live within a 10-minute walk is very impressive. Something in the region of 84 per cent of children at primary school level access their schools by foot if they're within a 10-minute walk of the primary school, and that constitutes around about 31 per cent of all young people. At high school, the figure is even higher—it's 96 per cent. So, what we need to do is actually get more of those who live a little further away to take up cycling or walking. The data—. Sorry to go on about the data, Deputy Presiding Officer, but the data also indicates that insofar as adults are concerned, those adults who were walking or cycling some years ago, or in recent years, are probably walking even more now. The problem is that those who have not been walking are still not walking, and for that reason we have to ensure that the maps that are developed and the networks that are built are suitable for the needs of people in communities right across the length and breadth of Wales.