Our thoughts go out to all those affected by the floods over the weekend, including many in my own constituency in the Llynfi, Garw and Ogmore valleys, and on lower lying areas in Heol-y-Cyw, Pencoed and elsewhere. And our thanks and praise go to all those who’ve helped respond to the emergency and to the clean-up, which is ongoing.

Much of this is as a result of flash flooding, which is a more regular event now, as our weather patterns change due to global warming. It’s affecting areas previously not thought liable to repeat flooding, but I’ve met residents where this is their third flood event in a decade, causing problems with unaffordable insurance, as well as immediate distress and devastation with their homes and belongings wrecked by flood water, mud and mess. Would the business manager seek a statement on flood resilience—and I notice the Cabinet Secretary is here and she’s very aware of this—so we can explore what more can be done at a community level, at a street level and at a household level to build greater resilience to these flood events? And can we include within that statement the need to develop further local flood forums, so that local people are part of the solution to this increasingly regular and increasingly traumatic river and surface-water flood events?