I speak in this debate to support amendment 1, tabled by Rebecca Evans, and in particular point 1, which notes the poor value for money represented by austerity economics, as highlighted by the UN criticism of UK poverty. 

Angela Burns and her Conservative colleagues would need the skills not of Job but Jackanory to explain how the Cameron and Osborne devastating austerity project, alongside May's magic money tree, has somehow morphed into the UK Tory Government borrowing just under £174 billion between April and August. We on the Welsh Labour benches will take no economic lessons from the Conservatives. In a decade, they have shape-shifted from the economic piety of Ebenezer Scrooge to the economic policies of a national lottery winner in Las Vegas. So, the Tories can stop—please just stop your lecturing to the people of Wales and the Members of this Senedd about your superiority and fidelity to value for money for taxpayers because—[Interruption.]

I draw Members' attention to amendment 1, point 3, which welcomes the progress made in delivering innovative Welsh Government policies—free prescriptions, Jobs Growth Wales, presumed consent for organ donation, the single cancer pathway, the childcare offer, the doubling of the capital limit, twenty-first century schools, and the economic resilience fund. I could go on, but let me be succinct: the Tories understand the price of everything and the value of nothing, and it is Welsh Labour who the people of Wales trust with the public sector and with fiscal propriety to protect, nurture and grow Wales because the strong fiscal discipline and vision for Wales that we implement flies in the very face of a whole decade of evidenced UK Tory Government policy, as they continue to squeeze the Welsh public budget until the pips squeak. Wales is now £4 billion worse off since they came to office, and we work to counter this every day, and it is why they are desperate to weaken devolution and weaken this place.

The Tory UK Government has so far spent £57 million and rising in consultancy contracts—too many to mention. Deloitte is doing very well—£6.7 million in contracts, a further £3 million for providing to the Cabinet Office, and £2.5 million in contracts from the Tory Treasury—and PricewaterhouseCoopers, £3 million in consultancy. I could go on. So, the Tory approach to supervising taxpayers' money is deeply worrying, but it is no different to the way successive Tory Governments have always behaved, with the sell-off of our national industries, the break-up of our public sector and public services, and a desire to erode and grind down local government for privatisation. In contrast, here, the Welsh Labour Government in Wales strengthens and maintains our public service ethos. It is at its very core and central to our very being. In Wales, 'not for profit' means something.

Finally, let me return to the UK Tory Government borrowing just under £174 billion between April and August. In those four short months of summer, the Tories borrowed more than the UK Labour Government borrowed in the whole of the financial year when the Labour Government bailed out the banks and saved the economy from ruin. And that is important, because do you remember, in this very place, the endless goading from the Tory benches of fixing the roof when the sun shone, of them saying Labour had spent all the money, and that this, colleagues, was the only reason used to fulfil their deep ideological desire to shrink the state with a decade of austerity, and for what? In four months, they borrowed more than the Labour Government in an entire year. Yet again, typical Tories at the height of hypocrisy. Llywydd, they seek to claim the monopoly on economic competence, yet the Welsh people know they would not trust the Tories to sell them a second-hand banger, let alone trust them to manage our public finances. Thank you.