Wales has been Labour since 1999, nothing to do with England, and England numbers have gone up since Labour left power. That’s what the statistics say. You created the crisis. You live with it. You do something about it.

The explanatory memorandum to this Bill states that between 2011-12 and 2015-16, a total of 11,508 additional housing units were built, but this has been inflated by the inclusion of low-cost home ownership and intermediate rent homes. But Welsh Government figures also show that in the same time period, the total number of dwellings completed in Wales was 29,939, compared with 47,598 between 1992-93 and 1996-7, the last five years in which a Conservative Government was responsible for housing in Wales.

Welsh Government figures also reveal that only 4,347 dwellings were completed by registered social landlords and councils in Wales between 2011-12 and 2015-16, compared with 13,558 during the last five years when a Conservative Government was responsible for housing in Wales. This is why Wales has an affordable supply crisis, and why this cynical Bill is simply an ideological smokescreen for Labour’s great housing betrayal. You may smile, Minister. You should be shaking your head in shame, because you caused this, and you sat there ignoring the warnings of crisis, and now you’re pretending the crisis was of somebody else’s creation. Well, you’re good at blaming other people. Isn’t it about time you started taking responsibility for the mess that you have made?