May I ask the leader of the house to move to the next item on our agenda, as I have given her an opportunity to catch her breath? Jane Hutt, therefore, will move to the business statement and announcement. Jane Hutt.

Diolch, Lywydd. I have two changes to report to this week’s business. The statement on the independent evaluation of the emergency ambulance services clinical response model will take place immediately after this business statement and, later this afternoon, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure will make a statement on the future of local bus services. Business for the next three weeks is as shown on the business statement and announcement found among the meeting papers available to Members electronically.

Leader of the house, you’ll be aware of the case of the schoolteacher Juhel Miah who was last week stopped from travelling to the United States via Iceland on a school trip. Juhel is a maths teacher in Llangatwg school. He’s Welsh; he was born in Swansea. He’s also a Muslim with a Bangladeshi name. He’s widely respected by colleagues and loved by pupils. What we see now is a climate of suspicion, not only affecting travellers on the US President’s list of countries, but it’s affecting Welsh citizens as well. Mr Miah has been in contact with me following his removal from the flight to the United States, asking me to speak out on his behalf and to find out the reasons behind his removal from that flight. To date, he’s received no explanation. Will you arrange for a statement supporting Mr Miah’s quest for an explanation as to why he was treated in this unacceptable manner during a trip with his pupils?

I thank Leanne Wood for that question, and as she’ll be aware—and I’m aware she has also written to the First Minister—the First Minister has written to the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs seeking urgent consideration and observations on this matter, requesting that he pursue the matter directly with the appropriate US authorities. We need an explanation, as you say, Leanne Wood, for what seems to be a contravention of stated US policy and the rights granted to UK passport holders. I think we’re all very, very concerned and, indeed, dismayed by this action, and we all want the answers. So, thank you for raising it.

The leader of the house may know that Neath Port Talbot council has become the first organisation in Wales to sign the voluntary charter of the TUC’s Dying to Work campaign, which protects staff facing terminal illness. Sadly, I know from the personal experience of a close friend who is no longer with us how vital it is for people in that situation to have peace of mind and a sense of security and support from their employers as they face their illness. The charter commits the employer to protect employment terms and death-in-service benefits and to provide active support with a view to maintaining the dignity and the well-being of the employee, consistent with their illness. Will the Government make a statement about what steps it can take to encourage other public sector organisations in Wales also to sign that charter, and whether Welsh Government itself will do so, and whether it will encourage the Assembly Commission to do so?

I certainly welcome the move by Neath Port Talbot council to introduce this terminally ill staff charter for its employees. Obviously, learning from that, we would want to see this being shared and we would encourage other public sector organisations in Wales to follow Neath Port Talbot’s example. But we’re also, as a Welsh Government, currently exploring how we can better support public authorities to provide national and regional leadership by adopting policies of this kind, which do support people who are terminally ill.

Before Christmas recess, I asked the health Secretary to reconsider the Government’s decision to close Wales’s only perinatal in-patient unit in 2013. He declined and told me that enhanced community provision was adequately addressing the needs of mothers with perinatal mental health needs. I have obtained information showing that two LHBs have no data to illustrate what potential demand there is for an in-patient unit. Two LHBs did not have a perinatal community service until last summer, almost three years after the closure of the specialist unit. In at least one LHB, mothers are being offered referrals to in-patient units in England, but mothers are declining such referrals because they don’t want to be separated from their families. The cost of running an in-patient service in Wales was a mere £500,000 a year. Perinatal mental health issues can cost mothers their lives and deny children a parent. Can we have a statement from the health Secretary as soon as possible on what he intends to do in the future to provide mothers in Wales with the services they deserve?

This is something that we know that we need to look at—how this is going to be delivered as a result of that change in service. We need to see how it’s being delivered across Wales. You’ve given some evidence today, but I think the Cabinet Secretary will be able to update and respond, particularly if you have examples at a constituency level that can be brought to our attention.

I thank the Minister.