I too welcome the report, and I do welcome the response from Welsh Government. It does indeed demonstrate their commitment to addressing the recommendations made by the committee. I’m going to focus solely on recommendation 6, and that concerns funding for independent domestic violence advisors, or IDVAs, and multi-agency risk assessment conferences, otherwise called MARACs.

IDVAs often offer a lifeline for victims and their children by helping to secure the safety of those who are at high risk of injury or homicide by partners, ex-partners, or family members. And the support they offer is invaluable, as I’m sure you will all agree. Refuge, and many other organisations, have said that work with them has been shown to substantially reduce the risk facing victims of domestic abuse. We all know that, on average, a woman will have experienced 35 assaults before they first call the police. And I will remind the Assembly that, in January of this year, at least 11 women from the UK have been killed by men, or where a man is the principal suspect, according to Counting Dead Women. Eleven women in just one month alone—that is one in every 2.8 days, or one in less than three days. And that is, I think, a stark reminder of why—