Like others, Cabinet Secretary, can I also join you in thanking the health and social services staff, emergency responders, public service workers and volunteers, of course, in the efforts that they've shown over this winter and especially over the last few days?

In my former role—I may have mentioned this once or twice—I was a trade union official, and I did represent NHS staff. It's particularly pleasing, I think, to see the paramedic band 6 coming to fruition. I was there at the outset of those negotiations, and seeing that come to fruition is really quite pleasing, and I'm glad that's now happening. When I was in that role, I was aware on a daily basis of the kind of heroic efforts that we saw NHS staff performing over the last few days. It has perhaps been more in the news, it has been more public over the last few days, but actually, if you're in the service, you see people going a step further than they need to every day of every week. I remember very clearly having to talk to some politicians and political parties about the need to be careful in their criticisms of the NHS, which play out, intentional or not, as criticisms of the staff who deliver our service, and the demoralising impact that that had then and continues to have.

So, I'd certainly echo your views, Cabinet Secretary, that if the Conservatives in particular are so keen on supporting and thanking our NHS workers for the terrific job they do week in and week out, then their move certainly should be to lift the pay cap and make sure that all of our NHS staff get the pay rise they so richly deserve. And I'd certainly also echo your views that just calling for extra staff in a vacuum is not going to take us any further forward when we are, as you've said, eight years into a period of austerity that one particular party in this Chamber seem to continue to advocate.

But my questions to you, Cabinet Secretary, are: despite the undoubted record numbers of staff, the pressures are still huge for all the reasons that you've set out, and given those types of pressures, specifically, that we've just witnessed, would you agree that staff well-being has to be a very high priority and that people will need now some time and space to recover from these recent pressures so that we can sustain the services over the medium to long term? And can I ask you what more you think we can do to help manage those pressures on those hard-working staff, both in health and social care?