Thank you, Presiding Officer. I rise to move the motion in the name of my colleague Paul Davies on the order paper today that:

'Calls on the Welsh Government’s Permanent Secretary to publish, with appropriate redactions to ensure anonymity of witnesses, the report into her investigation on "whether there is any evidence of a prior unauthorised sharing of information—i.e. a 'leak'—by the Welsh Government of information relating to the recent Ministerial reshuffle", as described in recent media reports.'

I would hope that this motion today will gain the support of the Assembly, because it merely seeks to do what we as Assembly Members time and time again expect in our role, which is to scrutinise organisations that have had an allegation levelled against them that has been inquired into and a report complied. It is our duty as Assembly Members then to exercise that role of scrutiny over the organisation to understand the events that led up to the accusation, the methodology that put the report together, the conclusions, and, ultimately, whether any actions need to be taken. That, to me, would seem to be a pretty reasonable request of anyone that had published a report that, sadly, no-one has had a chance to see.

Obviously, the events that have led to the publication of this report have been a matter of great public debate and interest. I have to say, in the 11 years that I have been an Assembly Member, I don't think—in virtually every cordon that I've gone to, people have spoken about the events around the Cabinet reshuffle, which doesn't normally, in Welsh political terms, gather that much interest. But, because of the tragic circumstances that flowed from it, obviously people have taken a great interest in this particular aspect.

I don't propose to talk about any of the other inquiries that are currently ongoing. I don't think that it would be at all appropriate to do that. But we do know for a fact that the Permanent Secretary's report is there sitting in Cathays Park, we do know that the investigation has been completed, but what we do not know is how the outcomes were arrived at and, in particular, any recommendations that might flow from that report to tighten up any future scenarios that might lead to such consequences.