I disagree. In any instance, non-executives also, to be able to perform their function of critical challenge, need to be able to ask good questions, and they can only do that from a basis of knowledge, and that's been lacking in this case.

It's an important sector economically. It's actually bigger in terms of value added than agriculture and, indeed, in terms of the rural economy, its importance is even more significant. In terms of climate change reduction, it's absolutely central, which is why, of course, the Welsh Government has had to increase its target, in response to the Committee on Climate Change's recommendation, to 4,000 hectares. As I pointed out in First Minister's questions, this is one of the worst areas of performance against any Government target. So, the target was 2,000 hectares a year of new woodland planted. We've been achieving, in the last year, I think, 200 hectares. In fact, in the last four years, it's been the worst four years of new woodland planted since 1971. Restocking rates—they're the worst since 1990. NRW itself has a land bank—these scars you see on the Welsh landscape at the moment of areas that have been felled but haven't been restocked. They have 6,000 hectares at the moment that they haven't restocked. That's four years' worth of production. The reason that they introduced the infamous 'standing sales plus' contract in 2016 was because NRW didn't have the funding to be able to build the infrastructure or to undertake restocking themselves, and so these contracts were meant to be used as a mechanism for them to harvest timber and restock at minimal cost. Well, it obviously hasn't worked; the figures speak for themselves. And, of course, if you look forward into the future, it gets even worse, because the current prediction is that there is going to be a 47 per cent cut in softwood availability in Wales over the next 25-year period.

This underperformance in this sector comes at a time when timber prices are at a 30-year high. Why? Partly because, of course, of the demand from biomass, and so everybody in the sector in Wales—which is why the Minister has received this letter from the 10 companies in question—is saying, 'Look, we could build this industry up; it's a huge resource for Wales,' and yet we are massively underperforming. NRW, actually, itself currently produces 800,000 tonnes a year. That is set to fall by 34 per cent over the next 20 years or so to 531,000 tonnes, and it's completely unnecessary. Whatever the structural solution to this question—and we may have different views on that in this Chamber—can we at least admit that there has been an absolutely critical failure here in this area of public policy? It's important economically, particularly in rural Wales, but it also affects our ability to meet the Government's own other target in terms of climate change, and it's the Minister that should take the responsibility here, fundamentally.