I'd like to thank you for this statement, and I'm encouraged by it. It's clear that the chosen schemes will add up to 657 new homes, rather than the 276 built last year, and the budget for this has increased considerably. In the past, I and my colleague Siân Gwenllian have called for the scheme to be more ambitious in its target and scale, and significantly more than doubling the number of homes is a good start. So, it's important to welcome that and to note when we are making good progress.

It's important to note that this should play a part in the wider approach to affordable housing. Six hundred and fifty seven new homes out of a target of 20,000 is an improvement on last year's total. I understand that part of this process is identifying what will work and what will not in order to support larger schemes in the future. Will you commit that next year's budget for this programme will increase if demand increases again and, crucially, if opportunities are identified to fund much larger projects? I understand that money is tight, but this could be an investment that saves in the longer term. Further to that point, if you're able to tackle the prospect of climate change—and reports recently suggest that this is becoming an increasingly dire and urgent challenge—innovation has to be part of this. If you want to move to a green energy future, and that is achievable in terms of power generation quite sooner than many people think, if we commit to it, we must also be smarter about that energy use and use less of it, and this sort of scheme is important as part of that whole holistic picture.

You mention innovation in the supply chains, and I would like to ask specifically what's being done to achieve that. I understand that more timber and sustainable materials are being used. What other materials are we looking at? Are we increasing our use of traditional Welsh materials, such as slate, for example? Last year, when the late Carl Sargeant delivered this update, David Melding pointed out the cost of using more bespoke designs and materials, so is there movement on bringing down those costs, and are there options to speed this up?

I'd like to know a little more regarding using innovation on a much larger scale, too, because, as has been noted, innovation comes with a cost, and if we are going to produce homes such as those on a much larger scale, to really make an impact on how sustainable this industry and the housing sector can be, it's important we try to identify methods that can be produced on a more mass scale.

So, I have those questions but, generally, we thank you for the statement here today.