I also support David Melding's legislative proposal. Like Rhun ap Iorwerth, I'm also a campaigner in this area myself. I think we're all very aware of the Welsh Government's climate change declaration, and of course David Melding's referred to the UK Government's announcement yesterday to phase out petrol and diesel cars at a much earlier stage. So I think it is important that we accelerate action in this area, to make sure that we're prepared for the change ahead.

That's why the Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee did a piece of work on this last year, and we actually conducted our inquiry in a very different way. We started in a normal way, in taking evidence, but what we then did is we decided to publish our draft report, and we did that because this is such a fast-moving area of policy change. So we wanted that further input, and then once we had that we then published our final report. We also took into account the work that Rhun ap Iorwerth had done, because that coincided more or less with our report.

'Planning Policy Wales: Edition 10' has a new policy on ultra low emission vehicles that requires non-residential developments to have charging points at at least 10 per cent of the parking spaces available. But our report recommended going further than this, and we said that this should be extended to include residential developments, and that consideration should be given to raising the percentage of parking spaces with charging points as electric vehicles become more prevalent. So, as a result of that, I was very pleased that the Welsh Government accepted this recommendation and indicated that the move to charging points in non-residential developments was—and I'm quoting here—

'intended to be an interim measure in lieu of a more comprehensive approach to be taken forward through the Building Regulations.'

So, our committee's report called for urgent action and the Welsh Government has said that it will bring forward a new electric vehicle charging strategy, and what that contains will be very important.

We've heard about market intervention, and the market will intervene in this area, but it is a chicken-and-egg situation. We do need the Government to step in to break that cycle, and that's why I'm very supportive of the proposals that have been put forward by David Melding today and I'll be supporting his legislative proposal.