I thank you very much for those questions and I very much appreciate the fact that you think we can all get behind changes to the system. The principles of the 2014 Act are reiterated in everything that we plan to do, with person-centred social care working to bring social care and health together. What the statement is doing today is as a result of the publication of the consultation that we have just published and to draw the attention of Members to the choices that now lie ahead of us, taking into consideration what's been said in the consultation and in the further proposals that we will be working on, engaging service users and working with different parts of the sector.

The 2014 Act was totally committed to working in a co-productive way, to work closely with the different stakeholders, and we plan to do that. I've already talked to the Chamber about the fair work forum that we have created and who we'll be working very closely with in all these developments. So, I want to assure the Member that we will be working with the sector to come up with solutions, and the purpose of the statement today is to highlight the fact that the consultation has finished and we've published the result of that consultation.

He referred to the new chief social care officer. This is bringing social care on a parity with the chief medical officer, for example. And it is very important, I think, for highlighting the importance of the profession that we do have a chief social care officer. I note that he believes that any national unit should be independent. That was the view that was reflected by some of the responses to the consultation document, and obviously that is something that we will consider.

We work very closely with the independent sector. I meet with the chair of Care Forum Wales on a regular basis and they have worked with us through the whole of the pandemic very closely. So, certainly the independent sector are going to be a key part of how we take things forward, because, of course, in terms of residential care, about 80 per cent of the provision is in the independent sector.