I hear, of course, what the Member says on local government reorganisation. His views are well known on the floor of the Assembly, if, I'm afraid I'd have to say, perhaps not quite as widely shared as he may once have hoped. Our Bill will not leave local government in the John Redwood position. It will provide radical new ways in which local authorities will be able to exercise new powers and will be able to act together in a statutory way to discharge functions on that regional basis. 

As far as the Welsh language is concerned, we have, as he knows, six sets of regulations that cover 120 different bodies already, and the standards that they introduce, and the compliance with those, are monitored by the Welsh Language Commissioner. The message I hear back whenever I am talking to people is not about the need for the standards to be the main focus of our attention, but the implementation of those and the use of those—the use of services by people who speak Welsh, through the language of their choice, and to encourage people to use the services that are now available. Now, when announcing the decision not to go ahead with the Welsh language Bill, Eluned Morgan announced that the programme of introducing standards for new bodies would restart, and the next step in that journey will be for new standards to be introduced for healthcare regulators and for the water companies in Wales. So, we're certainly not not doing things in that Welsh language space, because of our commitment, which I know the Member very powerfully shares, to reach our ambition of a million Welsh speakers by 2050. 

I thank him for what he said about the radical nature of our education reforms, about our determination to press ahead with extending the franchise to 16 and 17-year-olds, and, indeed, to people from other parts of the world who live in our local authority areas and have a stake in the future of those local authorities.

He's absolutely right to identify bus services as an equality issue. It's true; we know that when we talk about train services on the floor of the Assembly, there is often a lot of excitement about them. Bus services don't attract the same sort of public attention, and yet far, far more people use bus services, particularly the people that he was talking about in his contribution. That's why we have decided to put our focus unambiguously on bus regulation during this Assembly term, because it is, in the way that Alun Davies said, the thread that runs through the legislative programme. It puts equality front, centre and at the heart of everything that this Government wants to do here in Wales.