Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank Members for what has been a largely constructive and considered debate on the substance misuse annual report for 2018. There is agreement across the Chamber that this is a challenging area, with complex problems to address. Our commitment to substance misuse services is critical, and, as I say, has been demonstrated by the additional funding—a 10 per cent uplift in the budget—even in these most difficult financial times; we are faced with continuing austerity.

I do need to deal with the comments from the Conservative speaker in this debate. Yet again, you have Conservative politicians complaining about funding choices made as a direct consequence of austerity. Every Minister in this Government has had to face awful choices; things that we would want to carry on funding, with real value to the public—we had to make choices between them because of a direct consequence of Conservative austerity—a policy that Mark Isherwood and his colleagues have campaigned for in three successive general elections. My message is clear, because we're not going to make progress on this: take responsibility for Tory austerity, take responsibility for what you have done and don't lecture people about budgets, about choices that are made because of your choices.

Now, Mark Isherwood made a few—. I think actually, Leanne Wood's contribution—I didn't agree with everything that she said, but there is a need for a considered and grown-up debate on the issues that she urges; a debate with the police, with the Home Office, with politicians, but above all, with the public as well, about what we expect. Now, we don't have all the powers to do as Leanne urges, but we have had a look at the evidence in Europe and within the UK. We've had a look at medically supervised injecting facilities, and the former independent advisory panel on substance misuse looked at this and it published a report. We published it on the Welsh Government website in 2017. Despite the evidence considered in the report, they recognise that there are still concerns about the compatibility of medically supervised injection facilities with current criminal law relating to the misuse of drugs. This is an area that is a matter for the UK Government and the enforcement is with the police. The report concluded that based on the evidence available, they cannot currently recommend that medically supervised injections are implemented in Wales, but they do recognise that further work needs to be undertaken in this area to look at the potential feasibility within Wales. So, it is not a door that is permanently closed forever, but it is, I think, a recognition of where we are and the different division of responsibilities. We will, though, continue to look—