Diolch yn fawr, Llywydd, a diolch yn fawr i Adam Price hefyd. Wrth gwrs, rwy’n cytuno—adroddiad cychwynnol yw’r adroddiad sydd o flaen y Cynulliad y prynhawn yma. Aethon ni mas i siarad gyda’r bobl sy’n mynd i ddefnyddio’r adroddiad yn y maes, fel mae’r Ddeddf yn gofyn i ni ei wneud, ac yr un peth roeddynt yn dod yn ôl atom ni i ddweud oedd, ‘Peidiwch â pharatoi adroddiad sy’n rhy hir i’w ddefnyddio. Ceisiwch, os gallwch chi, baratoi adroddiad ble rydym ni’n gallu defnyddio’r wybodaeth sydd y tu fewn iddo.’

That does create a tension, inevitably, between the messages we have back from the field and from potential users that they wanted a report, as they said, that was concise and that allowed them to get to information that they wanted to use quickly. But it’s an important point that Adam Price makes—that, when you’re trying to produce a report of that sort, you inevitably lose some of the richness of the data that are available out there. It’s partly—to answer his second question about how we can develop the report in the future—why I’m keen that it should be an online resource that we can continuously keep up-to-date. Because then, I think, it is possible to provide upfront a relatively brief set of material for people who just want to get to the essence of something, but to be able quickly to direct people who have a deeper interest in any particular aspect of it to data that lie behind the headline, and where, using online material, you can get to those richer data without feeling that you’re being drowned in them at the first sight. So, if we can do it, I think that will help us to answer the point that he raised.

Of course, he is right: if we are going to understand the future better, then the past is often the best guide, both for things that we have succeeded in doing—those things that we were able to spot early and respond to—but those things as well where we have had ambitions that have not been fully realised, to try to see the things that got in the way of us being able to achieve the things we may have set out to achieve and then to draw on that learning in order to make our ability to make better policy decisions in the future, to avoid unintended consequences or poorly directed investments, and to identify opportunities that we would not have identified had we not done what the report tries to do. As I said, it tries to look in depth, but it tries especially to look broadly to see connections between different strands in Government activity, which, despite being a small Government, can be a challenge when you are running a single portfolio where your attention is inevitably focused on the matters in front of you and where it’s not always as easy as you might want it to be to see the way that those decisions connect with other decisions that have been made elsewhere in other parts of Government.