Thank you very much for that response. Of course, the BMJ research does show that 22,000 additional deaths are caused annually in England because of cuts in social care budgets in England. That’s 22,000 people dying because of cuts to the budget. That’s what the policy of austerity is leading to. In addition to that, because the Government in England safeguarded, or ring-fenced, expenditure on health in England, the funding for social care took a massive hit as a result. That is why we see those 22,000 deaths: because of those cuts and because there isn’t enough money in the system.

Now, people always say it’s not always about the money, but, in the case of social care, money is the fundamental issue because there are people in hospitals when they shouldn’t be there. That is the outcome of the lack of social care. We will be talking about deaths in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd later on. Why are those people still in hospital? Because they can’t be discharged and go back to their own homes because of a lack of social services and a lack of funding.

As you’ve mentioned, in light of the parliamentary review into health and social care by Dr Ruth Hussey and the central importance of social care and the demand for transformation, are you, essentially, going to be calling for an increase in expenditure on social care, because that's what we need to do—not do more with funding that we don't have, but call for an increase in expenditure and an increase in the budget of the integrated care fund?