Well, Llywydd, can I thank John Griffiths for that? He points to a genuine public policy challenge of our times. The future of retail on our high streets was already a challenging one before coronavirus, and that has undoubtedly added to the challenges that that sector faces. But John Griffiths is right, Llywydd, that what that means is that we have to reimagine the future, not try and recreate the past in the present, and that will mean a wider range of activities that will bring people into town and community and city centres, including residential use of those centres, a different form of retail and other activities as well.

During the month of April, I was able to visit Newport city centre with Mr Griffiths, and we met businesses there who had opened up during the pandemic and were demonstrating that it was still possible to make a success of those businesses, using the investments that the Welsh Government and other local actors have put in to recreating the city centre of Newport, whether that is the investment in the market, in the library, in the leisure centre or in the Chartist Tower hotel, to which John Griffiths referred. But it also involves the university as well, making sure that there is life in the centre of that city that will attract more people to it.

And, in answer to his underlying question whether the partnership approach that we have taken to town centre redevelopment over the last five years will be continued in this term, then, yes, certainly that is the way that we will prioritise city and town regeneration: a partnership between Welsh Government, local authorities, businesses themselves and other major public sector partners who can make that difference and make sure that those centres have a life that will draw people to them in the future.