Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:04 pm on 24 October 2018.
Thank you very much, acting Presiding Officer. Before I reply to the points that have been made in the debate and outline the Government's work in this area, I just want to reassure Members across the Chamber that I rarely visit a school where I am not greeted by the musical talents of the pupils in that school—choirs, samba bands, steel bands, violin quartets and a myriad of solo performers. I sometimes joke, if only the Programme for International Student Assessment measured musical talents as well as maths, science, English and reading, then I would sleep easier each time PISA came around.