I do thank Vikki Howells for that, and absolutely want to congratulate Rhigos Primary School and the team of people who have achieved that very significant award. I'm afraid, Llywydd, I have been around long enough vividly to remember a visit to a school in Rhondda Cynon Taf, the local authority represented here, with others, by Vikki Howells. It was a visit carried out by the then First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, and he met a formidable headteacher, who said to him that if there was one thing that she would like to see the Welsh Government do, it would be to take action to prevent children in her school turning up every morning too hungry to learn. That was a very sobering moment, Llywydd. From that one visit, the whole programme that we've had now right across Wales for, as Vikki Howells said, almost the whole of devolution to provide a free breakfast in primary schools, that's where that idea came from. And it does, as Vikki Howells has said, make sure that children who come to the classroom in Wales are ready to learn and not constantly preoccupied by the fact that they haven't eaten since they were last in school.

That will be enhanced even further by our programme of free dinners, free school meals—universal free school meals—a commitment embedded in our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru, and where a major step forward was taken yesterday with the announcement of the move forward in September of this year. I am hugely encouraged by the fact that so many schools and so many local authorities in Wales are able to join the roll-out of universal free school meals so early in the programme, and others with very active plans to extend that offer, not just to reception-age pupils, but to year 1 and year 2 students as well. It's an idea that's been widely welcomed, for all the reasons that Vikki Howells said, and we're off to a very good start with our programme here in Wales.