Can I say, before I even start, that I think—in terms of the historical nature of our constituencies and the heritage—can I just say that the tunnel goes from Merthyr to Abernant, not the other way around? [Laughter.] Richard Trevithick discovered the steam locomotive in 1803 and he went from Penydarren in Merthyr to Aberdare. Okay.

Can I just say—can I thank you first of all—? [Interruption.] [Laughter.] Not that we're competitive at all about our history, but there we are. Can I thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement? I'm going to bring it back to some slightly more mundane areas. We've had many conversations about the concerns around the upper Rhymney valley and I'd like to take this opportunity of thanking you and the Cabinet Secretary for economy for coming with me to visit local representatives and organisations and members of the public, and talking to them and sharing those concerns. But it does seem to me that, in many of our former industrial areas like Rhymney, looking at new innovative ways of regeneration is vital, so I very much welcome the interlinked delivery themes around the proposals for the regional park, particularly the aspects of it that cross the Heads of the Valleys.

You'll know that, in parts of Rhymney, we still have large areas of derelict former industrial land, which is symbolic of the decline in those communities over the last 30 years or so, and those areas have still failed to attract significant business investment. But, having said that, the whole area, as you've already said, is surrounded by breathtaking natural beauty. So, we have this industrial dereliction in the centre of something that is surrounded by such beauty, and we do need to clearly exploit that, to meet both the economic and the well-being goals.

And I look at some of the success, the huge success, of some of the leisure activities that we've seen developed in the former slate quarries in north Wales, and I wonder whether that represents a kind of blueprint for what we could do in some of our former industrial areas in the south Wales Valleys. Given that the well-being of the Valleys communities is such a vital component of the work of the taskforce, can I ask whether it's part of your vision for a Valleys regional park to look at those areas of dereliction with a view to possibly redeveloping for leisure activity and accommodation, to kind of complement the areas of natural beauty, turning them into visitor attractions in their own right and using this as one of the alternatives to just bringing back in industry to regenerate industrial or former industrial areas?

I was also very pleased to hear you mention, I think in answer to Dai Lloyd, about the Design Commission for Wales in Merthyr Tydfil, and I'd welcome your expanding a little bit more on that, because the proposals around the Design Commission charrette, what comes out of that is not just the buildings—Cyfarthfa castle and the blast furnaces and so on—but it's also about telling the whole story of the iron industry in Merthyr and the people who created it, right the way through to the Merthyr rising and beyond, and whether that forms part of your vision of the Valleys landscape park. Will that kind of experience around the history and the heritage be part of the landscape park as well?