The Welsh independent living grant helps disabled people to live independently. A fortnight ago, the First Minister told me the decision to transfer this to local authorities followed advice from the Welsh Government stakeholder advisory group, but membership organisation Disability Wales advises that their preferred option of a Wales independent living fund was not included for the stakeholder group’s consideration. Nearly two decades after devolution, with the Equality and Human Rights Commission reporting nearly one in four people in Wales living in poverty, and with child poverty above UK levels, it is time that recycled warm words were replaced with real action.