We are happy to champion the needs of our national health service and to campaign for more cash. You might like to defend cutting the national health service budget. I don't.

Now, I was pleased to hear your references to the need to take a look at the way that we invest in preventative spend, because we do know that it's not just about funding for the national health service, it's also funding for those services that prevent people from needing to access the national health service as well. And I'm pleased that you've listened to the calls of the future generations commissioner to take that situation more seriously, because we know that our councils in particular are facing significant additional pressures. They've got changing demography in their areas, and there's increasing demand for social care. Yet we're still seeing you cut cash. You're talking about a flat budget. The reality is that many local authorities are seeing their budgets significantly decrease as a result—[Interruption.]—as a result of your budget.

And those cuts are also hitting our schools. School funding in Wales, as we already know, according to the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers, is £678 per pupil per year lower than over the border in England, and that's in spite of you getting—[Interruption.]—an extra 20 per cent on top of every pound—[Interruption.]—that's spent over there. Don't argue with me. Argue with the NASUWT—[Interruption.] The Welsh Government's decisions to cut things like the education improvement grant this year and next year are only going to widen that gap.

Now, this is a budget, which you've presented to this house, that delivers real-term cuts yet again in the education budget, with schools set to receive £12 million less next year than in the current financial year. We already know that 40 per cent of schools are already operating with a budget deficit, and that looks only likely to rise. Is it any wonder that Estyn have concluded today that half of our secondary schools have shortcomings? Is it any wonder, when schools are facing that sort of pressure? And this is from a Government whose First Minister pledged to increase investment in our schools when he became First Minister back in 2009. The reality is that all he's done is cut, cut and cut in terms of their budget. In fact, we've had real-term cuts of almost 8 per cent in the gross budget expenditure for education from 2010-11 to date. What an absolute travesty.

I could say more, but the clock is ticking—[Interruption.]