In reducing bin collections, my authority, though, now allows cherry-picking as to what items the company operating the local recycling and waste disposal centre will accept, often turning people away, with simply nowhere to dispose of their residual waste. Introducing the four-weekly scheme in Conwy, the cabinet member boasts of having surveyed and consulted with residents. Yes, they did consult—11,000 people responding, showing that, already, there was a 99.6 per cent recycling rate, 39 per cent finding their wheelie bin full or overflowing within two weeks, and 60 per cent stating they wouldn’t cope with a three-weekly or four-weekly collection. This was ignored. So, I ask: how can anyone justify the reasons to halve the number of bin collections and then claim that people have been consulted? Now, this at a time when incidents of fly-tipping in the borough have increased, growing annually since 2013. At the time, raising council tax by an inflation-busting 5 per cent in 2016-17—one of the highest in the UK—’How is that fair?’, you might ask.

We are calling today to protect waste-collection services and to pledge that a Welsh Conservative-led council would ensure that residual waste is collected at least fortnightly. Yes, Assembly Members, we would reinstate fortnightly bin collections. We will work to deter and prosecute those guilty—[Interruption.] Yes.