Item 4 is 90-second statements, and the first this week is from Vikki Howells.

Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Saturday 5 May marked the start of the 2018 Dystonia Awareness Week. Dystonia affects all ages. It is a very painful, debilitating and disabling disorder. Faulty signals from the brain will cause muscles to spasm and pull on the body incorrectly. The body is forced into twisting, repetitive movements or abnormal postures. It may affect one part of the body or, indeed, multiple areas. In the overwhelming number of cases, there is no cure for dystonia—rather, it is a lifetime condition that must be managed. Dystonia is the third most common neurological condition in Wales. However, it still lacks awareness among the general public and even among some medical professionals. Dystonia Awareness Week aims to change this. The Dystonia Society have arranged for a number of events and activities around their theme, 'Go green and be seen'. The cross-party group on neurological conditions, chaired by Mark Isherwood, has played an excellent role in ensuring the voices of people affected by dystonia are heard here. I also want to thank the health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, for meeting with people with dystonia in my constituency office in Aberdare, and also for acting on a meeting held with the south Wales support group of the Dystonia Society. Since being elected, I have met many people who live with dystonia and still have incredibly full lives. I pay tribute to their courage and their fortitude. 

Thank you very much. Jayne Bryant.

The sixtieth anniversary of the Life Peerages Act 1958 was commemorated last week. One of those instrumental in campaigning for equality in both Houses of Parliament was Margaret Mackworth, Lady Rhondda. A suffragette and a lifelong campaigner for equality of women, she died in 1958, months after the Life Peerages Act was passed, and five years before the Peerage Act 1963 allowed women like herself to sit in the House of Lords. Raised in Newport, she took over as secretary of the local branch of the Women's Social and Political Union—the suffragettes—in 1908. A plaque now marks where she set off a home-made bomb in a post box in 1913, which she was sent to prison for. Although the post box is still standing today, she certainly made her point. During the first world war, she was appointed chief controller of women's recruitment at the Ministry of National Service. After the war, she founded the Time and Tide paper with its all-female board. Against the odds, she gained respect in the male-dominated world of business and became the first female president of the Institute of Directors. Lady Rhondda was a pioneer: she described women's suffrage as 'a draught of fresh air' and gained the nickname 'the Persistent Peeress' in her quest for equality. As her biographer, Angela John, says, in many different ways, and over decades, Lady Rhondda sought to turn the tide of public opinion in twentieth-century Britain. For that, we all owe her a debt of gratitude.

Thank you.