Thank you very much, deputy speaker. Before I begin this debate, it will come as no surprise to Mike Hedges or others here that I would like to mark the passing of a great champion of Welsh culture in Sybil Crouch, to whom we will say our final farewell—in this life, anyway—tomorrow in Swansea, and to extend our condolences to David Phillips, and all her family, and her hundreds if not thousands of friends in the Swansea area.

I'm very grateful to Rhianon Passmore for choosing this very timely topic, and I will be responding by addressing some issues relating to Creative Wales. I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to do that in this Assembly before I do it down the road at Cardiff and Vale College.

Before I do that, I would like to respond to the general points that have been made about the importance of the music industry, and I'm glad that both my colleagues Mick Antoniw and Mike Hedges mentioned the value of our choral tradition, because all these traditional aspects of our life are something that we must continue to celebrate.

I also understand the passion with which Rhianon Passmore is dedicated to music education. I will certainly be willing to co-operate with my colleague the Cabinet Minister for Education, and herself, and any other Members in or outside the Assembly who wish to pursue the possibility of a new strategic approach. Because I do recognise that, unless we have a strategic approach, there is no point in having a creative industry strategy if we don't have the creative people, particularly in music, to fulfil that role.