There are many, many challenges with our health service. We see these in Wales, the UK, Europe and around the world, and I'm not going to go through those analyses. What I do want to do, though, is to talk about the importance of the hospital that is only really a few minutes from where I live and that's the Royal Glamorgan, and performance there and the importance of that particular hospital to the local community, and why there is a need to look at the figures and to review what is a six-year out-of-date programme.

The Royal Glamorgan, in December 2019, in accident and emergency had 5,152 attendees; the Princess of Wales, 4,800; and Prince Charles, 4,947. In the 12-hour performance figures, the Royal Glamorgan was at 95 per cent and the other two hospitals were at 90 per cent respectively. The four-hour wait performance in Royal Glamorgan was again ahead of both of the two other hospitals. I think that underlines that, when we start trying to draw comparisons, it is not just about the figures, but the Royal Glamorgan is in a position of importance and is delivering to a higher degree, in one way or another, and is really important, and important in an area where there is a massive expansion of housing: 20,000 homes in the Taff Ely area over the next decade. So, the growth there and the issues of access are fundamentally important.

But what I do want to say is this: finance and money is, of course, important and it is actually fundamental in many ways. For example, over the past decade, the impact of austerity in terms of the freeze on public sector workers' wages has been really significant in terms of morale and in terms of retention, and that has been a massive factor. The other factor has been the underfunding or the lack of funds available to fund the NHS as should have happened. When Labour won the election in 1997 and said, 'You've got 24 hours to save the NHS', they were actually right. And, in actual fact, that Labour Government did save the NHS. In actual fact, from 1997 to 2010—sorry, 2009—the Labour Government increased in real terms the NHS funds available by 6 per cent in real terms every single year of that particular Government. That made an absolutely massive difference and it did save the NHS. When the Conservative-Lib Dem Government came in, the funding was 1.1 per cent. With Cameron and May, in their Conservative Governments from 2014-19, it was only 1.6 per cent. When people complain about the Labour manifesto—[Interruption.]—the Labour manifesto being profligate, the Labour proposal—.