Dirprwy Lywydd, I am glad to be able to respond to this debate this afternoon. Members have said this and I do believe this debate has exposed a very wide political divide in this Chamber, one that I have not witnessed before in 18 years of this Assembly. It is a divide, and it’s a divide that we have debated this afternoon; it is a divide and a fundamental difference in those values and principles that underpin our political commitments, priorities and motivations.

And of course, in responding to this debate, we have to look at what our political principles and priorities are and how we handle that, particularly as a Welsh Labour Government having to also manage the challenges that we have in terms of ongoing austerity, looking to ways in which we can not only progress in terms of investing in health and social care, housing and education, making difficult choices, looking to how we can serve the people of Wales, but we believe also very clearly in playing our part, playing the part we must play as global citizens and in supporting the wider world.

We support our spending on aid because it’s the right thing to do morally, and the right thing to do if we want a safer world in which everyone has a chance to prosper. We will vote against the UKIP motion and support the Plaid Cymru amendment, recognising the importance of international aid and the importance of the Wales for Africa programme, which has been spoken of and Steffan Lewis highlighted today. We must recognise, of course, that international aid is not devolved to Wales—it’s the responsibility of the UK Government—but this debate does provide us with the opportunity to report on that successful Wales for Africa programme and to look at ways in which we can meet those obligations, as John Griffiths described as being very clearly on an international basis.