Thank you for your statement, Minister, and I'd also like to place on record my thanks to you for the work that you've done to date to work with communities to reduce vulnerability to the increased risk of flooding that we see as a result of climate change and for your announcement of over £71 million, the largest ever package of investment in Wales to reduce flood risk.

In your statement, you referred to section 19 investigations enabling local authorities to improve data models. I'd like to seek some clarification here as to who is responsible for building and maintaining these data models. My understanding was that this fell under the remit of Natural Resources Wales, so I'd welcome some further explanation on that.

Secondly, I'd like to raise the issue that, during the storms of 2020, some communities, such as Cynon Valley, experienced devastating flooding from rivers for which there was no previous data held. In my discussions with NRW, I've been told that this absence of data is a complete barrier to being able to build a case to successfully bid for flood defences. So, I'd like to ask what work is being done by Welsh Government to ensure these communities are not at a disadvantage in gaining protection from future flooding when the existence of prior data is currently key to working up a successful case for flood defence funding.