Diolch yn fawr iawn, Dirprwy Lywydd. My apologies for being a bit premature earlier. Can I begin by genuinely welcoming the focus on child poverty within this debate? It's right that we focus on this, because we know that child poverty, unresolved, can diminish the early life of a child and further diminish their life chances as they journey to and through adulthood. 

Let me just turn, right at the outset, to some of the contributions that have been made already and thank everybody for making those contributions. Bethan rightly identified the scourge of child poverty and the negative impact as well of the tax and benefit changes. She challenged us on having a sense of complacency—I'll turn to that in a moment, because I do not believe we have—but also challenged us not to sit on the sidelines. I'll turn to that in a moment as well, because I do not believe that this Welsh Government is sitting on the sidelines. She asked, 'What about the administration of UK Government policy?' I'll turn directly to that, but can I say that what we shouldn't be is the administrators of UK Conservative Government policy? I'll turn to that in a moment.

Mark Isherwood contributed to the debate and talked about the stubbornly high child poverty in Wales. He's right, and that's why we can't be complacent. Child poverty is stubbornly high, but let me just correct and put on the record here that it isn't correct, first of all, to say, as some people might suggest, that child poverty in Wales has increased. In fact, the most recent households-below-average-income data published in March this year show that relative child poverty has fallen by two percentage points in Wales for the three years to 2016-17 after housing costs were paid, compared to figures—last year, sorry, compared to figures published in 2017.

Also, it's not correct to say that child poverty levels in Wales stand above the UK level, because those same HBAI data published in March show that relative child poverty after housing costs in the UK currently stands at 30 per cent.