Thank you very much, Llywydd. May I welcome the fact that the Government is now not going to bring forward an agriculture Bill for Wales before the next election? It’s certainly something that I and Plaid Cymru have been arguing for over the past few weeks and months. I do feel that we should wait to see what the post-Brexit trading landscape looks like—that is, what access will Welsh farmers have to markets, will the level of tariffs be detrimental to the industry, and, indeed, how much funding will be available from the UK Government through the Welsh Government to support the sector in Wales—before we proceed to implement any recommendations that emerge from the consultation that has just commenced. Introducing changes like these isn’t something that you do without serious consideration—you're aware of that. It’s only once in a generation that such far-reaching changes can be introduced, so it’s important that we turn over every stone and consider all possible options before proceeding. I always felt that the Government timetable was unrealistic, and I am pleased that the Government has now recognised that from a legislation perspective.

The current consultation, of course, closes a day before Brexit may happen, at the end of October. Then we will need to consider the options and the responses. Then we will need impact assessments and we need to model the impact of the Government’s proposals on the sector. Then we need to design programmes with the sector, and then draft the legislation. So, it was always very ambitious to do that before 2021. But what I would like to ask about this specifically is: now that we have more time within the timetable, as the Bill itself isn’t going to be introduced before the next election, can you confirm to us that the Welsh Government won’t carry out the impact assessments and the modelling on the sector until we know what Brexit looks like? Because you said yourself some moments ago about the unforeseen consequences and that we are entering grounds that we couldn’t perhaps imagine. The reality is, if you’ve done the modelling and the impact assessments before Brexit happens, then it is premature, because we won’t know whether the context will reflect where we are post Brexit.