Cabinet Secretary, it is clear from the result of the EU referendum that the people living in Islwyn and other areas of South Wales East did not feel the impact and benefit of European structural funding. Over 50 per cent of people living in Caerphilly council voted to leave the EU, over 56 per cent in Merthyr Tydfil, 60 per cent in Torfaen, and 62 per cent in Blaenau Gwent. Does the Cabinet Secretary agree that these figures show the total failure of the Labour Party to demonstrate the benefit of EU membership in its heartland, hindered as it was by the half-hearted support for ‘remain’ from Jeremy Corbyn, and how will funds be supplemented to the South Wales East valleys by your Government in the near future?

I’m afraid, Dirprwy Lywydd, that it’s like arriving at the cinema to find a reel from an old film still going on in front of you. Of course I am aware of the results of the referendum. [Laughter.] I’m equally absolutely certain that the people in those communities to which he has referred did not vote for a poorer and more impoverished future.