Thank you, Minister, for your statement, and I remain in no doubt that austerity is a politically motivated camouflage for an ideological attack on the state and public sector by the UK Conservative Government, and I make no apologies for saying that. It is critical to the context and outlook for Wales and the people of Wales, which is the statement that we have just heard. And I'm afraid the Assembly group opposite do belong within the UK Tory family, although they do try and distance themselves from it like a rather weak and wobbly distant relative that they really just don’t want anything to do with on occasion. So, Minister, I’ve heard it said by the Tory benches that I mention austerity a lot, and that is because it does make me angry. I make no apologies for that either. As the Assembly Member for Islwyn, I will continue to mention austerity.

I’m increasingly concerned that the situation, though, is being made a lot worse, as the Minister has said, by the UK Government’s ongoing lack of a comprehensive spending review, the lack of clarity making planning virtually impossible, and that this compounds the impact of the ongoing austerity. It compounds the cuts to Wales, and it does not even countenance the economic crash and harm of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, which seems to be somehow not countenanced by some in this Chamber. So, Minister, can you set out further your view on how the cumulative impact of these constraints are impacting on our ability to act, despite the highly ambitious and innovative programme of legislation?