Thank you for your statement, Minister. I'd just like to pick up on a couple of points from the employability plan itself. First, I welcome the creation of the employment advice gateway. I think that getting advice and support from someone with expertise in drawing out the skills and experience of a work seeker, and who has the knowledge to guide a work seeker through the myriad courses and training that are on offer, is absolutely vital. 

One question I would like to ask, though, is: who is this going to be available to? Will it just be for NEETs and the unemployed, or will it be available to those in work who want to upskill? I'm very much hoping that you're going to say it's the latter, because we don't just need to get people back into work; we need to help people already in work to earn more and to keep more of their own money as well. A failure of some of the previous schemes to get unemployed people back into work is that they're intended to start to provide support some months into the period of unemployment. Obviously, the longer a person's unemployed, the harder it is for them to find employment, so, it's therefore very important that this advice and support is available from day one, and if the Minister could clarify that for me, I would be very, very grateful for that.

Turning to Working Wales, again, this programme has laudable aims and I really do hope that this ambitious plan works in the way it's been intended. However, how are you going to ensure that placing people in education and training will not be used as a cover for unemployment figures, and the Government's failure to provide a business environment that's conducive to job creation? Improving employability has to work in tandem with encouraging investment from those SMEs upon which the majority of people in the UK depend for employment. So, it concerns me that you're looking at placing more obligations on employers.

Encouraging employers to take care of the well-being and health of their employees is a perfectly reasonable and laudable request, and, of course, employers are already obliged to ensure the health and safety of their employees and workers. However, Welsh Government needs to be really careful that placing obligations on employers doesn't have the unintended consequence of reducing the level of employment generally, because, obviously, the more expensive employing a person is made, the fewer people will be employed. So, what cost-benefit analysis are you going to undertake to ensure that any new obligations you place on employers don't have the consequence of increasing employment costs and thereby reducing employment levels? Thank you.