Thank you. Working with our partners, Welsh Government explored the ECO flex process to develop an optional Wales-wide statement of intent, so as to make it as easy and as attractive as possible for local authorities to engage with this scheme. I know that officials are continuing to work with the Welsh Local Government Association, local authorities and also the Cardiff capital region so that an approach can be developed that maximises the participation of our local authorities, makes it attractive for energy suppliers, and overcomes those barriers to engagement that we all know are often there in any new scheme. Proposals will soon be submitted to the Minister for Climate Change for her to formally consider.

I think what that collaborative approach really does is to support the recommendations that were made by the Senedd's Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee when they had their inquiry—I think it was back in 2020—into fuel poverty, and they came forward with recommendations. What they really wanted to see was closer working with the ECO.