I absolutely agree with the Member's comments with regard to how the importance and the role of local communities has been really brought to the fore during the past six months or so, and how many people have gone above and beyond, whether they be volunteers or whether they be small businesses, diversifying not just to support their businesses, but to support the more vulnerable in the local community as well.

In terms of actually—. The Member raises a really good point in terms of, actually, that analysis of those local businesses within town centres and how they are managing to diversify. Our revenue funding through our transforming towns funding has enabled local authorities to work with town centres in terms of their digital offer. I think that's really important—it's a really important area of work moving forward, enabling those smaller, independent businesses to increase what they can do online, whether that be actually adjusting to COVID—we have seen it accelerated during the pandemic—whether that's adjusting to, actually, just having some kind of online, web, presence, or offering things like a call and collect or a click and collect service. So, digital in terms of actually how we support small, independent businesses but also town centres as a whole in terms of, actually, that digital can be used to improve the offer and to actually manage footfall and promote footfall within town centres as well.

The Member talks about the repurposing of public spaces and the need to work across Government in terms of actually how we make that accessible, but in a way, as she said, that takes into account the points that the Member, Mark Isherwood, raised with regard to not creating extra hurdles or burdens to access town centres. Absolutely we recognise this is not—as I said in the statement, this is not something for one area of Government or one portfolio alone, and it's not just something for Government alone. We need to work right across Government and we are doing so, and not just within Government, but with local authority partners and the third sector, and those right across the public sector and private sector too, which, as she says, is absolutely crucial in terms of actually how we take forward identifying these co-working hubs right across towns in Wales. She mentioned about Valleys towns, and I'm absolutely committed and keen to making sure that a wide range of towns, and the people that live in those towns, get to reap the benefits of this agenda moving forward. One of the steps that we're taking as a Government that I've asked officials to action is to actually get a clearer understanding of where public sector property is within towns, to offer that leverage to take this agenda forward.