Thank you for the comments. Of course, these—. I politely disagree with him about the first point that the structural change is what's highlighted the anomalies. It was actually a new head of midwifery services coming in and doing what she should have done in reviewing the position and looking at the cluster of cases and recognising that those matters needed to be escalated. So, actually, it's a professional leader coming in to do her job and doing her job properly and escalating those concerns. And that has been properly escalated, and we now find ourselves here with a genuinely independent review taking place.

The assurance that I have sought is for every health board in Wales, and I want to be able to come back and to be able to provide a statement to Members about that assurance being provided. I've asked for that within two weeks, but I do think that women and expectant mothers in Cwm Taf should continue to have confidence in the compassion of the care that they receive and in the quality of it, with the additional staff who are arriving. Any woman who is concerned should discuss that with her midwife—any concerns at all, either about the more general points that are raised in the public eye or their individual care. 

And I do have to say that some of the most inspiring people I've met in the health service have been midwives, committed to learning and committed to improving the care that they provide. And we have seen a significant change in midwifery care in the last five to 10 years—a much greater move to having more midwife-led care and to re-normalise that and not have a significant medical intervention as being the norm, and that's actually been better for mothers and babies as a result. But it should of course be the case, as you say, that where we have significant issues of concern, we are prepared to review them, to look at that and to properly learn and apply that learning to further improve services in the future. But I will provide a written note to every Member, and I'll turn it into a written statement so that it's publicly available, about the assurance when we receive them from every single health board in the country.