Diolch, Heledd. Can I start by agreeing absolutely with your opening remarks about how the threat to tourism and the visitor economy at the moment is the cost-of-living crisis? I think most of our tourism partners and stakeholders would tell us that. Myself and the Minister for Economy regularly meet with tourism stakeholders, and that is one of the issues that they tell us, not just in terms of them running their businesses and the additional costs and the threats to their businesses for that, but actually the cost to visitors to come here, because that is one of the things that gets knocked off the list when people are thinking about essential spend. So, I absolutely agree with you on that. 

In terms of the slate heritage, again I agree. The slate industry has been described as the most Welsh of industries. Nearly all the workers were native to the region, they were from within Wales, the Welsh language was used consistently at all levels of the workforce and management, and that is still the case today. So, I think very much that is something that is important to recognise and is important to embed in the visitor offer. The visitor offer has to embed the Welsh language as being part of your experience of travelling to and visiting that part of north-west Wales. That is very much something that I know that Gwynedd Council and Snowdonia national park, who are partners in the development of the landscape, are very keen to ensure happens, and it's written into their development plans.

On the infrastructure, again, there is nothing I would argue with you on that. The infrastructure is much wider than anything within my brief, because that is a huge question, which involves my colleagues in other ministries, but one of the things that I could say is that that is something very much that a tourism levy could assist with, in terms of the infrastructure—it would help to develop an area for tourism. But the infrastructure in terms of how those tourist attractions are developed is very much the responsibility of the local authority, and I guess that is one of the things that they will be taking on board and they will be thinking about when they decide whether or not they would want to have a tourism levy in that area. 

Just to come back to your point about Welsh language and culture, the world heritage site nomination—not necessarily now about the tourist attraction, but the world heritage site nomination—recognised the importance of the Welsh language and culture. The steering board and the board meetings for the heritage site are all held in Welsh, and the language remains central with the community engagement and ambassador schemes. I would not be fearful of any threat or concern around the development and the promotion of the Welsh language in that area.

To come back, then, to your final point, which I think is a very valid point, about the north Wales museum and the slate museum and their interaction and their relationship, the development of the museum of north Wales, as you know, was a significant programme for government commitment, as is the redevelopment of the National Slate Museum site at Llanberis. To be clear, Heledd, because it may not have been in my statement, the redevelopment of the museum will focus on providing new, improved visitor welcome facilities, education facilities and community facilities to support the international profile that the UNESCO world heritage site will bring. But the redeveloped museum will become the north Wales headquarters for Amgueddfa Cymru. So, that will house displays of extensive collections of art, natural science, history and archaeology from the region that are currently held in other parts of Wales. So, it is about transferring that to north Wales. And it's hoped that the redeveloped museum will then become a hub for other cultural and heritage offers across the region. 

In terms of where we're going with that, work is under way on a feasibility study, which will include presenting proposals for how a museum of north Wales and the enhanced role for the National Slate Museum will be delivered. Amgueddfa Cymru has established an internal steering group now to develop that project, and a project director has recently been appointed to lead on that. And I know that Amgueddfa Cymru has engaged with the local community and visitors to the site, as well as museums and cultural organisations across Wales, and they're continuing to gather feedback on how that site, both the slate museum and the north Wales museum, should be developed.