Diolch, Llywydd. I formally move the amendment tabled in my name. Trust in politics is at an all-time low and is being made worse by a trail of broken promises. People are losing faith in devolution, because devolution has failed to deliver the promised benefits. Policy failures and Government waste have accelerated the erosion of trust in our institution. 

As the Welsh Conservatives point out in their motion, over £1 billion of funds have been wasted in the past decade; funds that could have made a real difference to the lives and the people of Wales. How many people have died of cancer because, due to a lack of resources, an early diagnosis could not be made? How many homeless veterans have died because there wasn't enough affordable accommodation? How many children have had their life chances curtailed because they were failed by the Welsh education system? Imagine what a difference £1 billion could have made to all of those lives. Imagine how many doctors or nurses could have been employed. Imagine how many affordable homes we could have built. Instead, that money disappeared along with the hopes and dreams of many Welsh voters.

Successive Welsh Governments have promised much but failed to deliver. They promised to transform the Welsh economy. They set a target of achieving 80 per cent of UK GDP, which was dropped when it was clear that it couldn't be achieved. Despite millions of pounds of state aid, Wales continues to be the poorest region of western Europe. EU structural funds, which promised to transform west Wales and the Valleys were squandered—a colossal broken promise that failed to deliver economic prosperity. Policy failures that failed to deliver much-needed jobs in my region.

South Wales West has haemorrhaged jobs over the past decade and more. We witnessed the biggest employers downscale altogether. We were promised that new employers would replace the high-paid manufacturing jobs that were lost at Sony, Ford, Visteon, 3M, Tata and a whole host of other global manufacturers. What we got was a stream of failed schemes, wasted investment and a string of low-paid call centre jobs. The people of Wales stopped listening to the broken promises. Is it any wonder that less than a third of the electorate of South Wales West bothered to vote in 2016? Across Wales, the picture is repeated. This has resulted in huge levels of distrust in politics, and less than half of eligible voters bothered to turn out at the last Senedd elections. Is it any wonder when the Executive and the legislature spend much more time debating abstract constitutional issues than they do matters that affect the lives of ordinary people in Wales?

But we have to restore faith in politics and faith in the institutions. And we can start to do that when we deliver on the promises given to the people of Wales; when we deliver improvement to people's lives; when we eliminate waste. I agree with the Welsh Conservatives that we need to establish a cross-departmental office at the heart of Government that will ensure value for money, eliminate waste and provide openness and transparency to Welsh Government. The vast majority of us are here to deliver improvements to the lives of the people of Wales, and unfortunately far too many of those people now don't trust us and we have to rebuild that trust.

I believe in devolution and I believe in the Welsh Parliament that the people of Wales voted for. And I believe in working with every party to give the people of Wales what they want and to rebuild their lives and give them a better quality of delivery. And I urge Members to support my amendment and support the motion. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you very much.