Way to go on our 'Operation Red Meat'

It has issued the report ‘to help islanders understand more about the plan, and what the States is seeking to achieve’. ‘We know the public want to see progress, they want to see action,’ said P&R vice-president Deputy Heidi Soulsby.

Detail is relatively scarce in an eight-page monitoring report, but let's consider progress on some of the top 10 actions identified last summer.

Action on housing was deemed 'urgent'. And there’s progress of a sort, even if nothing as yet has a roof on it. Priority has been given to affordable housing, not five-bed homes on green fields. It is interesting that 37 possible sites have been reviewed and the GHA is now looking at a shortlist with the potential for 350 units. Kenilworth Vinery has been bought, with much fanfare, and work is set to start in a corner of Belgrave Vinery.

The States is also looking at how to speed up delivery of affordable homes with different build types. We wait expectantly too for progress on property rationalisation and to see if the redundant hotels policy bears fruit.

The re-organisation of secondary and post-16 education, like the decision or not, was settled by the States. Now however the sixth form work programmes are described as being ‘under some stress’ with a tight timeframe for the build. Largely out of the limelight for now, Education is literally rebuilding.

On skills, we get the usual buzz phrases, now promising a ‘Human Capital Development Plan’ in mid-2022. Work is being done to establish data on the skills gap, but nothing really in the public domain on this consistently thorny issue which has rarely seemed to make significant headway.

It's under less stress than he is, but the GWP is effectively P&R's version of Boris Johnson's 'Operation Red Meat', intended to keep voters and deputies on board with action.

One year in, it's made a fair start. But there's a long way to go.