I’m not sure whether I should be grateful for those comments or not. Let me say this: UKIP has a rather curious track record in these things, where the voting record of its elected Members doesn’t always match the rhetoric employed at different occasions. The leader of UKIP in this place never stops reminding us that he was proud to vote for the 1981 budget that led to extraordinary levels of poverty and to de-industrialisation in the Valleys of south Wales. The UKIP Member sitting adjacent to you on these benches was very happy as a Conservative to vote for austerity, which has led directly to the loss of the £350 million from some of the most vulnerable people in the Valleys of south Wales, which I referred to earlier. I listen to what UKIP has to say and then I look at their voting record, and I have to say that there are few organisations that have a record of being so destructive for the communities of the south Wales Valleys as UKIP.

You ask what is different about what we’re embarking upon today and those initiatives of the past. Let me say this: this is an initiative that is led by people in the Valleys, from the Valleys; that is led by the visions and the ambitions for people in the Valleys, from the Valleys; it encompasses the whole of Government and not simply a department of Government; it brings together all the different ambitions and visions of this Government for the communities that we seek to represent and the communities from which we were born. And let me say this: we are absolutely committed to ensuring that we will deliver for those communities and that we will invest in those communities in the same way as you have sown the seeds of economic de-industrialisation in those communities.