I would like to congratulate you on a really excellent report, blessedly short as well at only 19 pages—fantastic—but really, really packed with information. This is really excellent work.

I'd like to pay tribute to the public service broadcasters for keeping going throughout the pandemic, and providing the crucial information we all need to find out exactly what is happening. If we compare what's happened in this country with what happened in the United States, where all sorts of wild rumours and false news were allowed to take off because there isn't a core public broadcasting service that everybody can draw on, and that is potentially very, very dangerous. We have to acknowledge that ITV and Channel 4 have been seriously affected by the loss of advertising revenue. We are at risk of losing them, simply because they could be overwhelmed by these big brothers, Amazon and Netflix, which have, obviously, cleaned up with everybody being forced to stay at home. So, that is a really serious problem for our cultural future.

But, I do also pay tribute to Creative Wales, because that's a consistent line through it, that they have really reacted well in the way that they used the small amount of grant money that they were given to really put the money where it was going to be really effectively used. So, I think that's really great.

I think the film industry and, indeed, television drama production is rolling back, and that's very good news for everybody who's involved in film and television, and there are lots of indications of that. And that's very good, because they're better able to function within the regulations. But, there's a huge amount of desperation out there.

The £7 million the Welsh Government made available to fill the massive gaps that the UK Government failed to offer freelancers who couldn't prove that they'd been freelancers for two or three years is very, very serious. As Mick Antoniw said earlier in a question to the Minister, if we're talking about 250,000 people, somebody's worked out that if we gave them each £2,500 it would add up to £40 million, and we clearly haven't got those sorts of resources. There have always been people who drift off out of the industry when they haven't got work, the so-called resting actors who are brickies or taxi drivers, but that work doesn't exist either, so I think it is really, really desperate for those who haven't got work and can't turn to alternative sources of work. For people like musicians, there is no light at the end of the tunnel at the moment, there really isn't, and that is a very, very serious problem, particularly with the amount that we really applaud our music and our musical culture—it's very, very serious indeed.

I think that there are very good examples, which I spoke about in a previous debate, of organisations changing the way they do things, like the Sherman and Rubicon Dance, but how possible is it? It seems totally impossible for musicians at the moment to operate at all, unless we can get them into providing entertainment in care homes and other places like that, where people are depressed for different reasons. Maybe that is a way in which we could give people work rather than just grants, which won't go very far. Thank you very much.