Can I first of all thank the committee for bringing forward this really worthwhile report, with some worthwhile recommendations? But I'm only going to focus on one area—I say to the Chair of the committee—and that's the issue that is referred to in the report around active travel and what more can be done. And it's interesting that the report actually flags that if we were to genuinely, meaningfully, deliver active travel, not simply active travel infrastructure but the cultural change that would enable schools to make it absolutely normal to walk and to cycle to school, the impact would be substantial, but it would be particularly proportionately impactful on young girls, because the benefits that they would achieve through that would be more, according to studies that have been done, than with young boys, though both would do it.

So, I just want to say to Government Ministers who've seen this—and I welcome a few weeks ago, in fact, when the Minister for Education came along to a presentation by a Cardiff school here in the Senedd and watched what they did. It's difficult sometimes to say to schools in your own area, 'Imagine a school where the governing body said, "We are going to do this; we're going to actually make ourselves into an active travel school. We're going to do it genuinely, not just the infrastructure, not just the cycle racks, we're going to do it. And we're going to do it in a number of ways. We're going to have the commitment from the top leadership of the school, from the teachers, the headteachers, the chair of governors, the governing body, we're going to engage with the local authority on it to make sure that not only do we have the hard infrastructure in the school, but around the school and around that town and around that community as well". Imagine a school where they actually said to every individual parent, "We're going to deliver personal travel agreements with you. At the start of your school year, we're going to talk about how your child will get to school safely and securely and to do it not by car. So, you can walk, you can have crocodiles, you can scoot, you can cycle, you can do whatever, but we want that understanding and agreement", and working with the parents, despite scepticism, to get to the point where every parent agrees to it there, and then to engage with local residents to explain to them what will be happening, that they will have little troops of children going past them in the morning and not to worry about that—that will now be normal—and they will have children coming through past the backs of their houses on the cycle lanes on bikes in great numbers.'

Now, there is a way to do this and it does require support and guidance to parents, some of whom will be sceptical. It does require the school infrastructure for bikes and scooting, and parking for bikes and scooters rather than cars—