Thank you, acting Presiding Officer. I move the motion in my name. 

High-quality skills matter. They help people get high-quality jobs and better pay, and they are absolutely vital if businesses and the Welsh economy are to innovate and thrive. They are one of the keys to increasing prosperity for all, which is why I am deeply disappointed, not only with the fact that the Welsh Government's response misses the bigger picture that we set out in our report, but that the response itself is, in my view, superficially and carelessly drafted. Minister, you told us that you were going to carefully consider the recommendations of our committee, but I'm afraid there's little evidence of any careful consideration in the Welsh Government's response.

Our report explains that many people in Wales are caught in a low-skills trap. So, for Members who perhaps might not be aware of what that means, low-skills traps are cycles where employers don't want or need higher level skills to be profitable, which leads to weak demand from people to gain those higher level skills. The result can be mismatched workforces that have both low-skilled and over-qualified employees. These traps also have human consequences, seeing people trapped in low-quality jobs that have low pay, with little prospect of moving up the ladder.

I've been quite negative so far, so perhaps I'll move to something more positive. It is encouraging that the committee and the Welsh Government agree on some of the fundamental problems that need to be tackled. Firstly, we agree that if low-skills traps are to be broken, and they must be broken, we must tackle both the supply of skills and the stimulation of demand for higher level skills at the same time. Secondly, we agree on how hard RSPs work, but they also need to reform and strengthen, we also need to strengthen them, but they are being asked to do too much on a shoestring, and I think the expectations and the to-do list is racing ahead of the resourcing that they have. And thirdly, we also agree that there absolutely must be vast improvements in the data collection and analysis capacity of RSPs and better SME engagement. There is no substitute for good data and analysis in skills planning.