Thank you for your statement, Minister, and of course we will work across party for our constituents, because this has been a worrying time for them, as half of Tata's UK workforce work at the Port Talbot steelworks where I live and represent. The fact that there are many further job losses will have a chilling effect on the town of Port Talbot just weeks before Christmas. While politicians blame sometimes the Tories or austerity and Brexit, we all know, and we can't brush under the carpet, that the EU has a huge role to play in this mess.

It's the EU who blocked Tata's merger with Thyssenkrupp, a merger that steel experts from across the globe said was necessary and that consolidation was the best way for the industry to survive. But the EU blocked that merger, and the EU's bureaucracy has doomed steelworkers in my region. As highlighted by the Welsh Government's own guidance on public procurement, EU laws are designed to promote free movement of goods—[Interruption.]—and services—it's true—and to prevent 'buy national' policies. Those 'buy national' policies are absolutely essential if we are to save Welsh steel, Welsh steel that is suffering as a result of other EU policies, such as the ones pushing up energy prices in the UK by forcing taxes on energy bills and suspending—[Interruption.]—and suspending UK firms' access to free carbon permits.