Thank you. Llywydd—[Interruption.] Llywydd, I intend to rise above the cheap, shouty, banter of the opposition. I have now the high—[Interruption.] I have now the high moral ground and I intend to keep it.

I'd like—[Interruption.] I'd like to talk about what is actually happening on the ground because many of the matters raised in this document I believe are things that we've been working on for the past couple of years in Pontypridd and the Taff Ely area, and in Rhondda Cynon Taf. I hope, unlike the banter that we've heard, to actually provide a few bits of data and a few statistics on this as well. Because I think there is an exciting partnership that's occurred between a socialist Labour-controlled council and with a socialist Labour Government delivering a socialist Labour approach to policy, to economic regeneration and developing prosperity.

The investment and partnership of Rhondda Cynon Taf with the Welsh Government I think is going to be one of the models of success that we should look at. The devolution of Transport for Wales to the Taff Ely area is already having significant economic and regenerative impacts. I think that's an important model. The fact that, as part of that and the franchise, there's potential development of maintenance units in Taff's Well, and the apprenticeship programme, as a result of Welsh Government investment in Coleg y Cymoedd, I think, is very significant and really exciting. 

Can I say also—? In terms of education and skills and training and aspiration, by 2020, with the twenty-first century schools project, Rhondda Cynon Taf will, over that 10-year period, have invested around £0.5 billion in new schools, modernising schools and new educational infrastructure. It is the most exciting and the biggest development for educational capacity and facilities, I believe, in generations.

Since 2012, there are now 2,017 more businesses in my constituency, a 53 per cent increase in the number. It's a former mining area, an area hit by all the problems of industrialisation and then deindustrialisation, and yet one of the highest areas of business growth. Gross pay in my constituency increased by 10 per cent compared with a 5 per cent average at UK level. GVA is still an issue, it is lower than the UK average, but it increased by 21 per cent compared to 17 per cent for the rest of the UK. 

Unemployment for those aged 16 plus has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the past year and 5.1 per cent in the last five years. There are many significant challenges in the Taff Ely, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Pontypridd area, but the actual partnership with Welsh Government, the partnership of investment in decentralisation of services and using that as a target for regeneration, the development around the metro, the educational development, is transforming that community. I think the optimism is now beginning to appear there.

Can I say—? Perhaps on the down side, of course, one of the big challenges—and we know there's been a lot about that in the media recently—is, across the whole of the UK, the issue of social mobility. We have to recognise that we can do many things within our devolved responsibilities and the resources we have, but we cannot isolate ourselves or extricate ourselves fully from the mega-economic and the macroeconomic levers that the UK Government has.

So, can I say—? When so much was expected from the Social Mobility Commission, a commission that had commended and recognised the progress that was being made in Wales in terms of child poverty, that talked about the leaking bucket of welfare cuts and the impact that had, when you see the entire commission resigning because it has no confidence that the UK Government has any real interest in social mobility, when you have someone saying—the chairman and the Conservative vice-chairman—basically criticising the UK Government for indecision, dysfunction and a lack of leadership, and when you have in the resignation letter of Alan Milburn, the chairman appointed by the Conservatives to head that commission, where he says,

'I do not doubt your personal belief in social justice, but I see little evidence of that being translated into meaningful action', that is the backdrop against which we work to regenerate and develop prosperity within Wales— against a backdrop of a Government that is so committed to austerity that it has resulted in the UK now having the second from bottom economic growth in the whole of the European area and the growth of unsecured debt for the whole of the UK to £392.8 billion. That is the economic backdrop against which we are working—[Interruption.] I apologise, I would have—