Can I just also very much welcome the statement by the leader of the house on the centenary of women's suffrage? We do, as you say, leader of the house, celebrate today the Representation of the People Act passed on 6 February 1918. It gave women the right to vote whilst also noting that women had to be over 30, and they, or their husband, had to meet a property qualification in order to vote. So, it was very much partial suffrage. But, also, in 1918, an Act was passed allowing women to stand for electoral office.

So, will you join me in welcoming the Barry and District News feature this week on Barry's first female politician, Councillor Beatrice Alice Lewis? Beatrice Alice Lewis was born in Ely, Cardiff, and was married to a coal trimmer in Barry. She topped the ballot in the 1919 local elections for the Castleland ward in Barry. She served for nine years and was noted for her campaign for a Barry maternity clinic. Will you also welcome the women's right to vote exhibition that's staged in Vale of Glamorgan libraries by the Vale Labour women's forum? That features Dame Dorothy Rees, the first female MP to represent Barry.

I think the statements that have been made by colleagues across the Chamber are important today: Suzy Davies talking about meaningful suffrage, the lack of suffrage, and the exclusion of women in many parts of the world, and also Siân Gwenllian who spoke about recognising the initial victory, which we celebrate today, 100 years on, but recognising that we have to achieve full equality in modern Wales, particularly for young women. This is a time when we must recognise what we have in common. There's more that unites us than divides us on these issues.

So, do you agree that we have a responsibility to encourage women to stand for local government, the Assembly and Westminster, and do you welcome the Chwarae Teg women's LeadHerShip campaign? I'm sure many of you will know about the LeadHerShip campaign at Chwarae Teg because it's enabling women to shadow Assembly Members—and I think many of you have agreed to sign up to this, men and women—to encourage greater political participation given the unacceptably low level of representation, particularly of women in local government. Indeed, only 20 per cent of councillors and MPs are women, but, of course, we do have an opportunity to seek gender equality in this Assembly. We've seen how fragile it is when we did have that equality in 2003: 50 per cent down to 42 per cent. We've got to make that gender parity stick. So, will you welcome the Chwarae Teg LeadHerShip campaign, and also, again, confirm that you are announcing today this all-important Welsh Government's women's suffrage centenary grant, and that we want all those organisations to engage with it locally and nationally?