Thank you for the statement on this important issue on action on disability and the right to independent living. It’s an important topic, but with all due respect, the statement itself doesn't enlighten us a great deal. What we have is a statement telling us that there’s an announcement to be made. Next week, the Government will publish its new framework and action plan—that’s what this statement tells us, basically. Now, I have no idea what the content of that framework will be, I have no idea what the response of disabled people will be to it, or the response of the charities and groups representing disabled people. So, my first question is: wouldn't it have been better to have made the statement after you'd published the new framework, so that we'd have something to consider, something to discuss, something to respond to, and something that we could weigh up?

In the absence of anything for the opposition parties to scrutinise, I'm going to ask you about something that is important to disabled people but isn't contained within the statement, namely the Welsh independent living grant. Mark Isherwood has already mentioned this. I want to approach it from a slightly different angle. As you know, it's a policy of your party to retain this grant and not to allow disabled people to be supported from general budgets within councils. Your conference very wisely adopted that policy. So, can I ask you this? In the absence of anything of substance in your statement today, can I ask a second question—and my final question—namely: when will the Welsh Government under the leadership of the Labour Party adopt the Labour Party’s policy and announce that the independent living grant will remain and won't be disappearing by 2020?