Diolch, Lywydd. I will be talking today about loneliness, and I’m pleased to allow time for both Eluned Morgan and Mark Isherwood to make contributions and I look forward to hearing the Minister or the Cabinet Secretary response.

I was prompted to table this debate by two things. First, an e-mail that I received before Christmas from the British Red Cross. The charity has teamed up with the Co-op to help people in Britain whose lives are diminished by loneliness. They have published a comprehensive report called ‘Trapped in a bubble’, and will be launching four new projects in Wales—one in Carmarthenshire, Conwy, Newport and Torfaen. Then, shortly after Christmas, I read a report about the launch later this month of the commission on loneliness, which was devised by the late Jo Cox and Seema Kennedy MP.