The national hotline service, Live Fear Free, is located in my constituency as it happens, and yesterday I had an opportunity to visit this important resource. And by the way, this is an example of a bilingual service that serves the whole of Wales from beyond Cardiff, in a very successful way, and the service has won a number of notable awards.

Ninety-six per cent of those who phone the hotline are women. And that’s not to say that men don’t also suffer from sexual violence, of course, or abuse, and that needs to be addressed, but we are seeing the degrading of women being normalised recently. Nigel Farage described the US President-elect’s recent comments, when he was boasting that he took sexual advantage of women, as ‘alpha male boasting’. These are entirely disgraceful comments, I think, and UKIP in Wales should be ashamed that such a thing was said and they should condemn that kind of language. Do you agree that the anti-women misogynistic environment is militating against the reduction of violence against women, domestic violence and sexual violence, and that the Government therefore, and everyone else, need to redouble their efforts in the current climate?

I turn to the national strategy that has been published and, like Mark Isherwood, I have a number of questions about it. Are you convinced that the need to educate our children and young people on healthy relationships is truly taking root, and that it is being given due attention as the new school curriculum is being implemented? There is a wonderful opportunity through the new curriculum, and it’s very important that we get this right, or that change won’t happen unless we educate our young people on healthy relationships in our schools.

In terms of the local strategies that are being developed, are you confident that these are being developed in a robust and consistent manner across local authorities? You’ve mentioned the delivery framework, but when exactly will that be done? What’s the deadline for the publication of the delivery framework that will outline how the Welsh Government will contribute to the objectives of the strategy, and what will the legal status of the delivery framework be? And when will the national indicators be put in place? There are a number of questions arising from the strategy, but I am pleased to see that progress has been made since the draft strategy that we saw as the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee recently. But there is a great deal of work still to be done, and it needs to be done as a matter of urgency.

Plaid Cymru has been innovative in developing policies in the Assembly in this area, and we’ve also succeeded in changing the law on stalking, which was led by Elfyn Llwyd in Westminster. Our commitment as a party is entirely firm here, and let no-one doubt that commitment. I too, along with many of my fellow Members here, am a White Ribbon champion.