I thank Joyce Watson for again highlighting the point that the youngest people have been one of the hardest hit groups from the pandemic, and the loss of work opportunities in the work that they were already in and the direct impact. Equally, I too am very proud of what previous Welsh Labour Governments have done with Jobs Growth Wales, and the more than 19,000 job opportunities that we've helped to create and sustain that have made a real difference. You see that the youth unemployment rate in Wales compares favourably with other parts of the UK, and crucially other European countries that didn't have such a deliberate intervention to try to protect young people from the fallout from, initially, the financial crisis and the ongoing damage done through austerity.

I should also recognise that, of course, Joyce Watson has been a consistent advocate for Women Into Construction, and has held a number of events within the Senedd on this very subject. I welcome her continued championing of the issue because she's right to point out that, unless you're going to do something about how the industry is seen, then you won't get more women to go into the industry. And that is both about women who want to go into the industry themselves, but also crucially the people making the hiring choices as well, to recognise there are many women who could and should have a career within the sector, because I think there are still some assumptions about the sort of person you need to be to be successful within construction. I've had meetings with construction industry representatives, myself and the Deputy Minister for Climate Change are jointly chairing a forum with the construction industry, and I will want to make sure that we're proactive about our expectations and our offer. I'm sure that I'll get an invitation from Joyce Watson to attend a future event to talk about this in more detail, and I'd be very happy to do so, because we do need to address the diversity, not just from the point of view about how not just Labour Members, but others too feel about equality and opportunity, but there is a real waste of talent that isn't being properly taken advantage of and is lost to that industry if it doesn't look more clearly at who it could and should have in, and at the way that apprenticeships and skills and employment and progression opportunities are given. So, I look forward to not just more questions, but to a more detailed conversation with the Member on that.