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And it includes a new ‘Welcome to Wales’ booklet for those deployed here. And the Welsh Government continues to work closely with organisations such as the Royal British Legion to support our armed forces and veterans in every way possible.

This package of support, though not exclusive, includes £0.5 million for the all-Wales veterans’ health and well-being service, the homebuy shared-equity scheme, which has been extended to cover widows and widowers of personnel killed in action, and additionally, as has been mentioned, from next April, a full disregard of the war disablement pension, which will be introduced in local authority financial assessments of charging for social care. This will ensure armed forces veterans in receipt of these pensions will not be required to use them in order to pay for the cost of their care. And in February, the Welsh Labour Government and the Welsh Local Government Association joined forces to introduce free swimming for all armed forces personnel and veterans across Wales.

I would like to praise the work of the mentioned expert group—the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom. The expert group was established to advise on how public services can best meet the service community’s needs. And I know that this Chamber will be fully united today in giving our armed forces their full support. This week, we pay our full respects and we remember, but we must challenge ourselves to ensure that we are true to that remembrance every day of the year. One of our greatest playwrights, Alan Bennett, in ‘The History Boys’ challenged the audience when one of his characters stated:

‘A photograph on every mantelpiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.’

This Welsh Labour Government is determined to ensure that we will never forget the individuals who are willing to sacrifice everything to protect our nation, and we will fulfil our duty to them. Thank you—diolch.