Thank you, Llywydd. The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee considered the LCM at its meeting on 11 January.

I’m sure everyone in this Chamber will agree that we should welcome any measure that seeks to improve the protection for our front-line emergency workers: as we've heard, the police, fire service and those in the NHS—nurses and doctors and so on—by strengthening the law when certain offences are committed against them.

We should also welcome the fact that, in the unfortunate event of an emergency worker being assaulted in the course of their duties, there are clauses in the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Bill that will allow for the taking of samples from the person who carried out that assault if it is believed that the emergency worker has been exposed to the risk of transmission of infectious disease. That is to be welcomed as well.

As well as enabling the worker to find out quickly if they are at risk of contracting an infectious disease, and taking swift action to address that, it will spare them the prolonged stress and worry of waiting for results, which can be weeks if not months.

So, on the basis that taking forward these provisions in a UK Bill will mean that emergency workers in devolved services in Wales are afforded the same level of protection at the same time as those in England, the committee has no objection to the agreement of this motion. Thank you very much.