Therefore, we move to item 4 which is the 90-second statements, and the first is from Jane Hutt.

Dirprwy Lywydd, as we mark the centenary of partial women's suffrage this week with the Representation of the People Act 1918 on 6 February 1918, today we'd like to pay tribute, I know, to women from Barry who played their part in the suffrage movement, including Annie Gwen Vaughan-Jones, who was the Secretary of the Cardiff and District Women's Suffrage Society. Annie was a student at the university college in Aberystwyth and a governess in Russia before world war one. She was also a magistrate sitting in tribunals, sympathetically hearing cases of female conscientious objectors. In addition to this historical figure, Eirene Lloyd White—Baroness White—who was a Labour peer with a successful political career, attended primary school in Barry, and, when Eirene was a little girl, Mrs Pankhurst came to visit Eirene's parents in their home in Park Road. Eirene remembered being dressed up in a white dress and a green, purple and white suffragette sash.When Emmeline Pankhurst came to Barry, she spoke at the co-operative hall and said,

'a free man could not be born of a slave mother.'

At the age of 10, Eirene White moved to London, where her father worked with David Lloyd George. She became a determined anti-racist after she was unable to eat in the same restaurant as Paul Robeson. She was a political journalist with the Manchester Evening News, the first woman to hold such a post. In 1950, she was elected MP for Flintshire East, and persuaded the Labour Party to vote for equal pay for women in the public sector. In the 1960s, she was Under-Secretary of State in the Colonial Office, later Minister of State at the Foreign Office and at the Welsh Office. Her ashes were scattered in Barry, where she spent a very happy childhood. In May, the Barry women's trail, which marks the lives of both Annie Vaughan-Jones and Eirene White, and 15 other exceptional Barry women, will be featured in the Valeways walking festival, and this will be a fitting tribute to these women in the centenary year of women's suffrage.

Thank you. Rhun ap Iorwerth.

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I have been at the excellent Velindre Cancer Centre this morning and I'd like to thank the staff for leading the way in the fight against cancer there and send my best wishes to all of the patients that I saw in fighting their own personal battles. One of our number is battling at present—a young colleague. Our best wishes go to Steffan Lewis who's received treatment already for bowel cancer and who is continuing to undergo treatment. When another Member of the Assembly, Glyn Davies, survived bowel cancer, he established a rugby team, and, since then, the Assembly rugby team has kept close ties to Bowel Cancer UK, raising funds where we can and raising awareness at all times. I'm wearing the team tie now, but I won't be wearing a tie on Saturday, but the team kit.

Our match against the Houses of Commons and Lords is the big annual match for the Assembly rugby team, held on the day of the Wales-England six nations fixture. I’ll be there, at Roslyn Park in London on Saturday, alongside a number of other Members, hopefully with all of you invited to play or to support. We’ll be there as Members, as support staff, as researchers, as security, and my son will be there too, all with one main purpose: no, not to extend our six-match winning streak, as important as that is, but to do all we can to raise the profile of the charities we support.

The bowel cancer charity has had a busy week, publishing a new report, calling for strengthened services and better diagnosis. And in donning our Assembly rugby kit, and, yes, putting our bodies on the line for 80 minutes this Saturday, we’ll try to do our bit to shout as loudly as we can for Steff and everybody else in the same position as him that, when it comes to the fight against cancer, it’s game on.

Dai Lloyd.

On Sunday, millions of people across the country joined forces to mark this year's World Cancer Day. Over 19,000 people in Wales are diagnosed with cancer each year, so I would like to take the opportunity today to mark World Cancer Day in the Chamber, to show that cancer remains high on the political agenda.

Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Their work to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives. Today, I’m wearing my Cancer Research UK unity band to show my support for World Cancer Day.

As Rhun has just mentioned, here in the Plaid Cymru group, this is very close to us, and our thoughts are always with our colleague, Steffan Lewis, and we wish him the best.

Early diagnosis is critical to improving patient outcomes. With incidence of cancer increasing in Wales, the high and growing demand for cancer tests means it’s essential to develop diagnostic capacity in certain parts of the NHS, particularly endoscopy, imaging and pathology. This will help to improve cancer survival in Wales and ensure cancers can be diagnosed quicker.

Given that each of those 19,000 people each year require a cancer test, it is imperative that we have the capacity in our diagnostic services to ensure that more cancers in Wales are diagnosed early.