Apologies for that, Llywydd; I am now unmuted. Can I thank Alun Davies for giving me a minute of his time in this debate? I hear the case that he's set out on behalf of his constituency and the wider Valleys communities. Alun, of course, draws on considerable experience, both as the constituency member for Blaenau Gwent, and as a former Minister who grappled directly with the deep-seated problems of our Valleys communities. 

Having now served almost one term in this Senedd, and, more recently, as a member of the Valleys taskforce, I'm clearly of the view that all that we have achieved so far—for example, the twenty-first century schools provision, new health and care facilities, transport and communication improvement, skills and apprenticeships, caring for our special Valleys environment, heritage and culture—has not yet gone far enough to turn around some of those deep-rooted economic, social, health and well-being issues described by Alun.

Of course, these problems are too often rooted in the experience of poverty, which the policies of successive UK Tory Governments have only exacerbated. However, unlike Alun, I'm not at this point making a case for a specific structural response to these matters, although, as always, he makes many salient points in his contribution. But in this Senedd term, I have noted the use of the Valleys taskforce, the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, enterprise zones, like the Haven Waterway and the Cardiff capital region. And in the case of the Valleys, I do hope that we now pull together the best of these lessons that these different models have provided, so that we keep improving the outcomes for our constituents in Valleys communities in the next term of this Senedd.