Well, as you say, you were born and brought up in the south Wales Valleys and understand the history and beauty of the landscape. Clearly, I wasn't born and brought up in the south Wales Valleys, but I can assure you I fully appreciate the history of the area and love the beauty of that landscape, and, of course, the tremendous people who live within it. 

You say you've worked closely with people living and working in the Valleys. You referred to a large number of meetings and conversations. You referred to the Valleys' natural and cultural heritage as something that should provide the backdrop to a new future for the area. But, in the spirit of co-production, in the spirit of Welsh legislation in the well-being of future generations Act, how will that go beyond consultation and even design to co-delivery outside the statutory sector, not just with established organisations but by reaching into and unlocking the strengths and assets within the people in the communities of the Valleys?

Why is it, do you think, that, in the eighteenth year of Welsh Government, when the last official figures were produced, the value of goods and services produced per head of population in west Wales and the Valleys was still the lowest out of the 12 UK nations and regions, despite billions spent on economic regeneration and anti-poverty programmes, with Anglesey bottom, at 52 per cent, Gwent not far behind at 56 per cent, and the central Valleys at 63 per cent of the UK average? I hope you will answer that in the context of, for instance, Poland, which began in a similar position on the starting block, but closed the gap, whereas Wales in relative terms has gone backwards. If you decide to take the classic reactionary Welsh Government approach to react against the UK Government and blame the Tories, remember you're speaking to the great-grandson of a miner, whose own father was made redundant in 1978, who worked for a manufacturing company that was one of the many that crashed because of the economic meltdown, and who suffered, as a family, the consequences. So, I hope you won't patronise me with trite responses accordingly. 

You refer to the £7 million announcement of capital funding by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance to establish the Valleys regional park in the draft budget over two years. I referred to west Wales and the Valleys, which includes four north Wales counties, which includes the areas with the least prosperity—even lower than Gwent, as referred to. So, how do they fit into this picture? Where is their fund for equivalent regeneration? Because west Wales and the Valleys, under the GVA description, which we're still working under as we're still in the EU, does include four north Wales counties, and the poorest part is in the north-west. 

You rightly refer to opportunities for green social prescribing—something we're also very committed to as part of the broader co-production agenda. Clearly, there have been a number of failed schemes to ignite regeneration and growth in the Valleys, from the regeneration investment fund for Wales, which the Public Accounts Committee said was

'poorly executed due to fundamental flaws in Welsh Government oversight and governance arrangements', not dissimilar to the 2009 Wales Audit Office report findings regarding Communities First, which I'd asked them to conduct—in fact, that only produced a new car park in Neath—or the Ebbw Vale enterprise zone, which failed to generate any meaningful support to create local jobs, or the collapse of the Circuit of Wales. How will you therefore be doing things differently to ensure that this investment is not merely a sticking plaster for the long-standing needs of people in that region?

I'll end on a more, hopefully, constructive and upbeat note, but I think these questions do need to be answered. This programme has introduced a community tourism ambassador scheme, which I am personally interested to discover more about. I grew up, of course, in north Wales, with North Wales Tourism, which has, I think, 1,500 members, and 3,000 people if you include those within those membership groups—or 3,000 organisations in the membership groups. How will you ensure that this community tourism ambassador scheme not only engages with the statutory sector and the third sector, but also hospitality and tourism providers, to ensure that all the buttons can be pressed together to mutual benefit?