Thank you very much for your statement, and I'm very pleased to see that you are proposing to align the planning framework, the decarbonisation agenda and the building regulations. That seems to me really absolutely the way we need to go. 

In your aspiration to use vacant public land, I want to ensure that—. It's a question as to whether you will ensure that the locations of this available land for new homes will also be aligned with our requirement to decrease carbon emissions from transport, and that we ensure we're only building homes where there are good public transport and active travel links, because some of the homes that have been built in my friend Julie Morgan's constituency are going to be an absolute nightmare for my constituents in terms of the increased traffic that's resulting, because there is not sufficient public transport links.

At the climate change committee's round table on climate change last week, we looked at the requirements for new homes, and one of the points that was emphasised was the importance not just of having well-insulated homes, but having lifetime sustainability homes. Having spent a lot of time recently in the Cyncoed ward in my constituency, I'm impressed by the way in which homes built between 80 and 100 years ago have been made adaptable to the needs of people with decreasing mobility—easily adaptable. You can see that these people have lived for a very long time in these homes, but they're able to continue to do so because they are adaptable. And there are huge carbon emissions costs of building these rabbit hutches that are only designed for 30 years, so I'm a little alarmed by your long-term aim to put a stop to this maximising of profitability regardless of the obligations of the climate challenge, and I'm hoping it might be a little shorter than that. 

Thirdly and lastly, I just want to emphasise the importance of ensuring that we are building for the future climate we are going to have. We're all aware of the extreme heat that was experienced by France last month, but this is the sort of thing that could happen here. And I want to point out to you some really important research that was done in Geelong in Australia, that showed that their urban forest strategy has enabled them to keep a 20 per cent reduction in the temperature of those homes that are benefiting from this urban canopy, both from the shade but also the use of lighter coloured pavements that deflect the temperature; by green roads, which is in line with our default 20 mph aspirations, that have porous surfaces to allow water to seep in and grass to grow through—all these as well as, obviously, fruit trees being a source of food. So, I'd be very happy to forward you the Geelong research, which I think is something we really, really need to build on in terms of building the homes that need to be resilient for the future we face.