Yes, I entirely agree with the Member's analysis of it. We have worked very hard with colleagues around building regulations and planning consents. And, as I said in reply to Hefin David, the councils could do a lot with the 106 agreements and the insistence—so, when a council does a 106 agreement to tie up the utilities and adopt the road and so on, then it should be ensuring that the broadband ducting and so on is all available. It has to be said that, if the main node is not in the main road it's being connected to, you might not get instant connection, but, without the ducting, a retrofit is, as you say, much more expensive. So, it should be ducted, and all the infrastructures you can put in, even if the node isn't in the road, although, in most places in Wales, it is now. So, I agree with that.

There are also issues around building regs and insulation. I know the Member is familiar with this, but the higher the insulation standard of the house, with which I entirely concur, the more of a Faraday cage it is and the less the signal travels. And so you need the ducting inside the house to allow the signal to transfer, and that's actually an essential part of it as well. And I'm very keen to have a discussion with colleague Ministers around the requirements—and I've had this conversation with Rebecca Evans, the responsible Minister—of social housing, for example, to ensure that people buying affordable housing also have those requirements included in the specification for the house, because what you don't want is to have digital exclusion pushed onto the top of that.

But I entirely concur: the house builders should be looking to ensure that what is now an essential part of twenty-first century life is included in the premises. And I will reiterate once more that it is surprising to me that people don't find out the cost of the connection before they agree the cost of the house.