Thank you, Presiding Officer, although I don't know why I should thank you in some ways because this Bill makes me despair. It is here that we have yet another example of Welsh Government rushing through shoddily constructed legislation in pursuit of a policy objective that none would argue with. Indeed, the Welsh Conservatives had a commitment to enacting measures in our last manifesto to tackle the prevalence of inappropriate alcohol use.

However, during all the committee phases and Stage 3, you have failed to impress, Cabinet Secretary, with your reasoning for refusing to ensure that there is greater clarity of, and clear measurement within, this Bill. You have refused to put the minimum unit price on the face of the Bill. There's no statutory starting point, and therefore the Bill can be seen as an incomplete piece of legislation. It leaves manufacturers in limbo, business in a quandary and does nothing to reassure ordinary people that you are not intending to be punitive, with devastating results for those on low incomes who have every right to enjoy alcohol as much as those whose wallets will feel less of an impact.

During evidence gathering in the Scottish Parliament's deliberations, strong evidence was heard that poorer drinkers will be affected disproportionately by minimum unit pricing, and concerns were raised in our evidence sessions along the same lines. Whilst on the subject of the Bill in Scotland, it does seem extraordinary to me that you were prepared to wait and see how the judicial challenge would pan out but you are not prepared to wait and learn from Scotland's experience with implementation of this novel legislation. That surely would have been helpful, given the raft of unintended consequences that could flow from this Bill, such as the issues of cross-border trade. Unlike Scotland, in Wales, our border with England is porous, is long and densely populated, with high levels of cross-border traffic, but these concerns were brushed aside.

I also remain unconvinced that the potential for unlicensed, smuggled and counterfeit alcohol was properly explored. But my biggest concern is that you could be replacing one addiction with another. A number of charities, including some working with the homeless, and others working with alcoholism and substance abuse, have highlighted the dangers of minimum unit pricing as a blunt, punitive instrument. There's a lot of talk about evidence in relation to this legislation, but little evidence to suggest that these concerns have been allayed or even properly examined. Indeed, the health committee heard evidence from users of an alcohol recovery centre who said that higher prices could push drinkers towards other, more harmful substances.

Additionally, the Huggard Centre, a Cardiff-based homeless charity that many of you will be aware of, warned that raising price alone for legal drugs such as alcohol may simply change one addiction for another and condemn people to a more entrenched and desperate life on the streets—their words, not mine. Consider, last week, the images we saw of young people on the drug Spice, which can be bought now for small change. How can we be convinced that putting up alcohol prices won't simply push more of the poorest in society towards substances like Spice?

The Welsh Conservatives are deeply sceptical that current drug and alcohol rehabilitation services will be enough to help those affected. Addiction is a mental illness, and we all know the issues that exist with the provision of mental health services. With north Wales losing the last of their residential detoxification beds and the third sector highlighting cuts to service provision elsewhere, additional support services do not look likely, and we would like to have your reassurance again that you will provide those.

In short, Cabinet Secretary, this is a sound policy objective, but I would never have brought such a poor quality Bill to the floor of this Chamber. It is simply not joined up, and the only thing—the only thing—that has rescued this Bill from an abstention by the Welsh Conservatives is the sunset clause, but even there, Cabinet Secretary, I issue a warning: you have rejected call after call by members of the opposition for rigorous monitoring of the effects of the Bill on areas ranging from the Bill's impact on addiction support services, on age groups, to the effect on those with small incomes. Nor are there commitments to measure the effects on domestic violence, on substitution, on alcohol-related hospital admissions, to name just a few of the consequences that we, the Welsh Conservatives, have raised at every stage of this Bill's passage.

But this sunset clause will be reviewed and voted on in the future by the Assembly of that day, and that Assembly, those Members, will judge you harshly if you do not collect credible, consistent, outcome-focused evidence that would enable proper scrutiny and sound judgment when reviewing the Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Bill.