Thank you, and thanks very much to Jayne Bryant for holding this very important debate. I think Jayne has illustrated the huge toll that caring can take on the carers, especially when they’re elderly themselves. I think it’s very important to remember that, however great the toll is, the carers want to care because it’s often their most loved person that they are caring for.

I just wanted to illustrate the real problems that can come from a caring situation with the very sad events that happened in my constituency last year. My 86-year-old constituent had been caring for his wife, also 86, who had been suffering from dementia for many years. Their children had left home. My constituent wanted to remain independent, and his wife had begged him not to put her in a home. Sadly, in July last year, everything became too much. My constituent killed his wife and threw himself under a train at Cardiff Central. He died in hospital seven weeks later. This is a very extreme case, but in the inquest, the inquest was told that my constituent had been caught in the fog of fatigue and he had given up. I think it is an illustration—an extreme illustration—of the state that you can get in, because this was a loving family: a carer who loved his wife but was driven to extreme measures because of the great toll that it had taken on him. So, I’d like to thank Jayne very much for highlighting these issues today.