Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and I move the amendments in the name of my colleague Darren Millar. I would agree with the Deputy Minister's opening comments when he said that broadband is now not a luxury; it's part of everyday life. It's like gas and electricity, and it's expected. I would agree with the Deputy Minister in his opening comments.

The Deputy Minister made a number of references to the fact that this is not a devolved area, but I would point out that the Labour Party made a manifesto commitment to ensure that all residential and business premises would have next generation broadband by 2015, a manifesto commitment that has not been delivered.

Now, since the introduction of the Superfast Cymru scheme, I would say we have seen a mixed picture when it comes to the narrowing of the digital divide between those in urban and rural areas of Wales. For example, Ofcom's 'Connected Nations' report conducted a case study that focused on my constituency, actually, as it happens, on digital connectivity, probably because I'm perhaps one of those Members who contacts them more than others. It found that a higher proportion of premises in Montgomeryshire are without access to so-called decent broadband of 10 Mbps, compared with the average for Wales, and that, in rural parts of Montgomeryshire, the gulf between the haves and have-nots rises further. Whilst some homes and businesses benefit from ultrafast fibre-to-premises technology, some have nothing at all.

And the situation is, of course, not unique to Powys at all—I'm not suggesting that. But this urban-rural digital divide across Wales has a huge detrimental impact on, of course, Wales's rural economy. It has to be a matter of great regret that some communities have been left stranded following the conclusion of phase 1 of the Superfast Cymru project, and while I appreciate that no public money has been spent on the so-called stranded assets that we see across our communities, it is incredibly frustrating for people to see fibre cables hanging from poles just metres away from their homes, and this ought to be something that is addressed by the Welsh Government. I think the Welsh Government has a role to play in compelling Openreach to act.

I also believe that there should have been a seamless transition between phase 1 and phase 2 of the Superfast Cymru scheme. The delay in commissioning and implementing phase 2, and the relative lack of specific information on the timetable for that delivery of a broadband upgrade on the Welsh Government and Openreach's broadband checkers, have both served to frustrate, and frustrate people who remain without any broadband at all, let alone high-speed broadband.

I was pleased to hear the Minister's announcement of a fund of—was it £5 million or £10 million?—£10 million pounds to deal with that last 5 per cent. I'm genuinely in two minds whether to tell my constituents of this great news, because I made that mistake with phase 2. I told my constituents who weren't serviced in phase 1, 'Look, something else is coming. This is positive, don't worry, you're going to be serviced,' and that didn't happen. So, I'm kind of reluctant to do that. I want the Minister to try and persuade me so that I do tell my constituents of this great new £10 million fund and that they will be serviced in that last 5 per cent.

Now, turning to some of our points in amendment 2, among the measures taken by the UK Government in recent times, we have seen the introduction of a universal service obligation, a £5 billion commitment to fund gigabit-capable deployment to 20 per cent of the hardest-to-reach premises through an outside-in approach, a £1 billion announcement that will bring about a shared rural mobile network that would see 4G mobile coverage extend to 95 per cent of the UK, and funding of up to £7 million to deliver full fibre-optic broadband in north Wales. Now, what we have also seen is updated guidance in England and Scotland, and I would invite the Minister to use the devolved policy levers at the Welsh Government's disposal to commit a public date by which much-needed reforms will be delivered so that rural Wales doesn't fall further behind England and Scotland. It is frustrating to hear the Minister talking about some of the devolved responsibilities. Many of the levers are in the hands of the Welsh Government, and they have not been used. That's why we have fallen behind other areas of the UK. [Interruption.] Well, there is planning, and other issues are devolved.

I have also been disappointed by the Welsh Government's mobile action plan. I don't want to say this, but it is a document that's got lots of warm words. I want it to be more than that, but rather than any concrete commitments, unfortunately, it looks like the drive behind that mobile action plan has disappeared. I would also like to see—. I can see that I'm out of time, Deputy Presiding Officer. So, in that case, I won't go on to say what I would like to see, unfortunately. Hopefully, I can get that in a bit later on. Thank you.