No, I can’t see that; we’re having this debate this afternoon, Joyce Watson.

Caroline Jones also pointed out the chair of the British Hospitality Association, who also happens to be the managing director of the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel and Spa, which is based in my own constituency, expressed his views that a tourism tax will hand an unfair advantage to our competitors in England, and this has, of course, been echoed by many others—the Wales Tourism Alliance and MWT Cymru, who have also said that the prospects of introducing a tourism tax will harm Wales’s competiveness and keep additional pressure on an industry that already pays VAT. Now, to those Members who have said that Wales should be not afraid of following the lead of other European countries, it should be remembered that most of those European countries that operate a tourism levy, with the exception of Slovakia, operate a reduced VAT rate on the main components of visitor expenditure.

Now, turning to Plaid Cymru’s contribution, it’s of course disappointing that they’ve amended our motion and totally ignored the main basis of our debate this afternoon, preferring to talk about a disposable plastic tax. And that’s worthy to be debated—I think there’s another debate in itself that could be talked about—but there wasn’t even the subject of our original motion. Now, in the draft budget debate, of course—I don’t want to misquote anyone here—Adam Price signalled his support for the tourism tax. This is what he said:

I think this is an idea that deserves to be explored.’

And he went on to say, talking about the tourism tax:

It’s called investing in the future of your country’.

Now, Steffan Lewis says—