That brings us to our next item, namely the 90-second statements.

This is Hospice Care Week 2017, celebrating both 50 years since Dame Cicely Saunders established the hospice movement in the UK and the many faces of hospice care, raising awareness of everyone involved, from nurses to volunteers, chefs to chaplains, fundraisers to carers. Hospices across Wales asked people to show their support by wearing yellow today, and Hospice UK launched the ‘Hospice care in Wales 2017’ report at a reception in the cross-party group at lunchtime in the Assembly today, quantifying the role of hospices in Wales. The majority of end-of-life care in Wales is provided by local hospices, improving the quality of life and well-being of adults and children with a life-limiting or terminal illness, helping them to live as fully as they can the precious time they have left. Collectively, the 15 charitable hospices in Wales provide vital care to 10,500 people every year, alongside support for many of their loved ones. They spend a combined £32.5 million on delivering care, and need to raise £2 million each month to continue doing this. Whilst adult hospices in Wales provide more than 24,000 day beds each year, the majority of their care is delivered in people’s homes, with 93 per cent providing hospice at home, outreach and day services and 40 per cent of services provided by children’s hospices being outreach services. So, let us ask our hospices how they can help us do more.

People across Wales have seen the tragic scenes of people, mostly Rohingya women and children, fleeing violence in Rakhine. This terrible violence has caused over 0.5 million people to seek refuge in Bangladesh. More than 500,000 people have crossed the border since 25 August and are in need of emergency food assistance; 300,000 people are in need of emergency shelter assistance. More than half of new arrivals are children under 18 years old, and one in 10 are pregnant or lactating mothers.

In Cox’s Bazar region, in southern Bangladesh, the local communities are struggling to cope with the displacement of people. Families are living in makeshift shelters on the side of the road or in overcrowded public buildings with no clean drinking water, toilets or washing facilities. Water provision and health services are stretched to breaking point, food is scarce and many people are reliant on aid to feed their families. Some are surviving on just one bowl of rice a day. With heavy rain and flooding, the risk of disease and infection is alarmingly high. Aid is needed now to relieve this humanitarian crisis.

Wales as a global nation should work with our friends internationally in order to tackle humanitarian suffering where we find it. In the past, yes, Wales has donated strongly to such appeals and, hopefully, the public will do so again this time. So, please donate by texting ‘HELPU’ to 70000 to donate £5, an amount that could provide a family with clean water for a week, or go to dec.org.uk to donate.