Well, I fully expect the Government to maintain its commitment to Supporting People in this budget, and, if it doesn’t, I’ll be as angry and disappointed as anybody who has put forward this motion today. But the work funded by Supporting People is a lifeline; it’s not a political football. The place for voting on the funding of Government services and programmes and policies is the budget vote. Everyone who follows this place carefully will know that, but for a lot of people who don’t follow it, or are casual observers, which will include a lot of people affected by Supporting People, it will seem that today’s vote is the vote on the programme, and it is not.

So, I appeal to Members to bear in mind the anxieties of people—many constituents of ours—who will understand full well the effect of the UK Government’s austerity cuts on the Welsh budget, and understand full well how much they depend on Supporting People. Others will form their own views of the opportunism of a party with a central role in writing the budget on the liaison committee, and the opportunism of a party whose Westminster colleagues have decimated their own programme and who have cut the Welsh budget, choosing to bring this motion in front of us today.

I’ll be voting against the motion, but I’ll not be voting against Supporting People. I’ll be voting against the kind of politics that treats Supporting People as a 30-minute quick hit in the Chamber.