It's been announced that it'll be a £20 billion real-term increase, a 3.4 per cent real-terms increase per year averaged over six years, and that it will come partly from the money we currently pay to the EU, but the rest, and, potentially, even a larger part of it, to come from tax rises. Given how the Barnett formula functions, that spending then comes through to Wales where we would look to the Welsh Government and this Welsh Assembly to tell our NHS staff, 'You are valued at least as much in Wales as you are in England, and we will be spending that money on you here as well.' Unfortunately, that has not happened.

I would like to address the rest of my remarks to other things aside from money, because, actually, it is quality of life and quality of their working life that our NHS staff value. Many of my constituents who will go to the Royal Gwent Hospital find the transport of getting there very difficult. Many of the consultants at the Royal Gwent actually commute from Cardiff to Newport to work at that hospital. Many of my constituents in the south-east Wales region will come in and work at the Heath hospital in Cardiff and find they're being fined hundreds of pounds for trying to park their car. There are huge challenges on transport, and we need not just the metro, which is a wonderful concept—I congratulate the Government on the new franchise—but we also need an M4 relief road and we need it quickly.

But not only that, we want to see hospitals designed, working with local government and other partners, to make sure those hospitals work for staff as well as the patient. It's fantastic we have the Grange university hospital, and it's at least as important that it's made an attractive place for staff to work—and hopefully live nearby, to reduce the difficulties of commuting. Yet, at the same time, we have this new hospital proposed. We have the Torfaen LDP, which has only now 300 houses there; it used to be about three times that many. They're building fewer than 200 houses a year over the plan period, compared to the 300 plus that they should be. The latest review only looks at house prices up to July last year, even though it was published in April, and, in the year to April, we've seen house prices in Torfaen go up by 12.7 per cent. They should get on with providing more infrastructure, more facilities and more accommodation, as well as the hospital. Yet, the LDP for Torfaen says the delivery of the strategic site should come forward in a phased way, with enabling works for the hospital, including any necessary highway improvements, delivered first, followed by the hospital itself. Only then does it say,

'The nature, timing and order of remaining uses will be determined by market conditions and further studies'.

Surely they need to get on with delivering the housing and delivering the infrastructure, to help all those workers who are going to be coming in be able to live so they can easily commute to work and enjoy a good quality of life. Welsh Government needs to back our NHS, but also work with partners to ensure that when it is backing the NHS, as with the Grange University Hospital, we get the support from Torfaen borough council and other partners we need too.