I haven’t finished yet, thank you. I will do it later—[Laughter.]—but has actually grown the UK deficit—[Interruption.] I will do this later, okay.

We have been suffering now for nine long years, and it is not a laughing matter for the people in my constituency, who are suffering from the results of austerity and welfare reform. This is outside—[Interruption.] This is outside the UN criticism of bedroom tax causing homelessness and the UN criticism of welfare reform and universal credit. It is completely linked, causing poverty and causing real harm to our people. And although the UK Tory Government has now got into the habit of intermittently declaring that austerity is at an end, well, in reality, the suffering goes on, as the suicides and the deaths are now being directly attributed to the disability benefit and personal independence payment assessment travesty. And I know, as a former councillor, first-hand, how valuable and how important local government is as a delivery arm to Welsh democracy and to delivering public services on the front line, and that it’s the vulnerable people who will continue to use local government services as the first front-line service.

But it is an absolute fact that Welsh Labour Government has protected local government in Wales from the worst effects of nine years of austerity and in the face of a cut—