I think this is a very important report. Our creative industries are a growth area for us and an area where we have a track record of excellence going back at least to the 1980s, when S4C was established. And it's something that we were on the verge of taking to another level as well, and focusing it was one of our key growth areas to bring greater prosperity to our economy. So, there's no doubt that COVID has been a real setback to the potential. Helen Mary mentioned that there is a danger that some of the structural capacity could be lost, and I think that for an economy like Wales, having developed this sector so carefully over the years, and done so much to attract many producers here, it would be a great pity if, when we recover from COVID, we find that we're not in the best position to take advantage of the return to some level of normality.

So, I think it's very important that the committee and the Government and the whole sector, as Helen Mary said, work together to ensure that we have an excellent plan to get back and take advantage of the opportunities that will come as soon we move on from COVID. I think a key element is the need to work. There are generous schemes in place—the furlough scheme, the Welsh Government has invested a lot of money, and used money as well from the UK Government that's come in addition—and there are some schemes that do seem to be very effective, delivered with a minimum of bureaucracy, and that's to be welcomed, but people need to work. And it's when productions are in operation, for instance, that the whole chain then works, down to the freelance make-up artists and everyone in between—the actors that also do other jobs, but if they're performing, they need these opportunities. So, all those things are really, really important.

One of the problems is the lack of insurance, or at least insurance at a reasonable cost, and we've heard this is not only a problem for productions—tv productions and film productions—but it's also a problem for music venues and theatres. This is another area where I think the Welsh Government and the UK Government obviously, at that scale, need to look at what can be done to perhaps enable that some of the resources that we are providing are done to enable work, rather than to be able to protect people and keep them at home, and at least not force them into another area of work where they may permanently then leave the creative industries. So, I think that's really important.

I just want to make one final point, and this goes right across our evidence gathering in terms of creative industries, our great cultural organisations and the various theatre companies out there. Those that have diversified their income base most in the last five or six years, often in response to Government urging, have found themselves often in the most vulnerable position, whilst those that are reliant most on public grants have tended to have those grants preserved, and we're thankful for that. But, of course, it's people that have shifted more to commercial income and a range of income sources that have been hit because of the lack of activity. This is true also in areas of publishing where the advertising revenue has been lost. So, I will conclude my remarks and just say I'm really pleased with the way the committee works very cross party, and itself engages with the sector very well, and that's why we have such an excellent evidence base for this and our other reports.