Well, I'm very pleased to answer the Member's question. John Griffiths raises an important point about the functional economic area that is Cardiff, Newport and Bristol, and just as we're seeing now closer collaboration on an economic basis, we have for many years experienced collaboration across that border within that area on an academic front with the GW4 group of universities often working very closely together on joint projects. I'm looking forward to the OECD taking a close view of the economic action plan and regional development in Wales. The OECD will directly inform the regional approach, and it will ensure that we've got the right structures and governance in place in order to create and maintain cross-border links.

The other important point to make, I think, is that, as we move forward with regionalisation on economic development, I think it will enable the regions to be able to collaborate on a cross-border basis on their own terms. This is very important in the context of a post-Brexit Britain because, if we've learned anything, it's that we have to ensure that communities and local areas and regions feel empowered to do what they can for their own people and for themselves and that they do not see central Government and a centralist approach as doing things for and to people. It enables a greater degree of co-production and collaboration and I think, whether it's in the south-east or whether it's in the north-east, or whether it's between the north-west and Ireland, we have to encourage cross-border activity and collaboration if we are to become a more competitive nation.