I do think that we should applaud the Government in terms of the ambition set out with these targets. Some of them are very far-reaching indeed: closing the gap in terms of skills, and in terms of the various qualification levels between Wales and the rest of the UK over a period of a decade. Now, that is ambitious, but can we know what resource is being allocated in order to meet some of these targets? There’s scant mention of an increase in funding for these programmes, if truth be told. So, can the Minister give us some idea of the level of investment that will underpin this plan?

Can the Minister also explain the rationale for reintroducing individual learning accounts? It's an old policy, scrapped by the Welsh Government seven years ago. It wasn’t seen as being a great success. In England, of course, it was scrapped because it caused one of the greatest ever cases of financial fraud. So, understanding the Government’s rationale would be of assistance there.

In terms of the community adult education sector, the Minister’s predecessor made a policy statement back in the summer. Because it is a sector that has seen significant erosion in its funding over a period of time, it was pledged that there would be new funding available, that there would be a new structure and a new plan in place. Can the Minister tell us a little about that in relation to the plan that she has outlined?

In terms of this focus on an individually tailored approach, I think there is great merit in that, but could that be extended to track individual progress once they have left formal education? For example, the kind of tracking work that’s been done very successfully in Ceredigion, and to link that with one idea of how we can close Welsh skills gap, namely by attracting students back to Wales, after they’ve left to study in England, to try to attract them back, as our party has been emphasising for quite some time.

Then, finally, reference was made to the need for Welsh language skills. Of course, we have seen evidence from the Welsh Language Commissioner of the particularly low figure in terms of apprenticeships offered entirely through the medium of Welsh—I think it was 0.3 per cent that was the figure given by the Welsh Language Commissioner. Can we have a target for the provision, certainly in terms of vocational provision, which is very low at the moment, and also apprenticeships, so that it can contribute not only to the policy of 1 million Welsh speakers, but also to enable Welsh speakers to reach their potential in terms of their skills too?