And the report highlighted how we were the first Government in the United Kingdom to extend free school meals support in the school holidays, a commitment we have now extended to Easter 2022. Our £3.2 billion economic resilience fund has provided the most generous offer of support to businesses anywhere in the United Kingdom, shaped by the advice of our social partnership council. And as soon as the public health situation improves, of course we want to see our businesses trading and thriving again.

Llywydd, I'm very proud to report that our wonderful vaccination teams have given more than 600,000 people their first dose of a vaccine in just over two months. This is truly remarkable progress in such a short time and we will support the first amendment laid to the debate this afternoon, while rejecting the other two. 

Austerity, Brexit, climate change and coronavirus: this combination of challenges would have been enough to slow the progress of any Government, but this Government has delivered on the promises it made to people in Wales five years ago. In 2016, we promised we would cut taxes for small businesses and we've done that; that we would provide free childcare for three and four-year-olds and we've done that too; invest £100 million in school standards, and that's been done; create an £80 million new treatment fund to improve access to new medicines, done as well; double the capital limit to £50,000, done two years earlier than promised; create 100,000 all-age apprentices, and that's been delivered as well; build 20,000 affordable homes. Every one of those promises delivered. And these were just the most prominent of the offers we made to the people in Wales. We've delivered a much wider programme of work to protect and build prosperity and to make Wales a more equal and greener country.

We created the development bank, the envy of the rest of the UK. It invested more than £100 million in 2019-20, safeguarding or creating almost 4,000 jobs in Wales. It now manages more than £1.2 billion of Welsh Government funds—an unprecedented scale of investment in our economy. Llywydd, this term has been the term of the foundational economy, the everyday goods and services we all need, the jobs that stay in the communities that create them. We are supporting innovative projects right across Wales to test exciting new ways of working in this crucial sector.

And when it comes to those who have the least, we continue to invest in the Wales-only council tax reduction scheme, helping more than 270,000 households in need to make ends meet, with 220,000 households paying no council tax at all. We've put a record £27.6 million into our unique discretionary assistance fund this year alone. We've launched our single advice fund, which brings millions of pounds to families most in need of help. We've doubled and doubled again the number of times a child can get help with the costs of the school day. We've created, expanded and funded our national programme to tackle holiday hunger—the only example in the whole of the United Kingdom of a national scheme, nationally funded.

Llywydd, I turn to that other great emergency of our time, the climate emergency that this Senedd declared in 2019, becoming the first Parliament anywhere in the world to do so. On this side of the Senedd, we are internationalists not nationalists, focused on the interdependencies of this fragile planet, not the illusions of independence. We make our contributions seriously and practically across the whole range of this Government's responsibilities. Wales continues to be one of the best recycling nations in the whole of the world, but still we want to be better. We've invested more than £40 million in the circular economy, helping us to use and reuse and then recycle materials that might otherwise be thrown away, supporting our goal of becoming a zero-carbon Wales.

In August, we published our clean air plan, setting out the actions we will take to improve air quality, and, last month, we published a White Paper further to strengthen our approach. We've set out ambitious plans for a national forest, and our local places for nature programme has created nearly 400 community gardens and other green spaces where people live, bringing nature to people's doorstep in a year in which we have needed it most. In 2020, for the first time in our history, more than half of Wales's electricity needs were met by renewable energy, and there are more than 72,000 renewable energy projects in Wales, moving us closer towards sustainable low-carbon energy generation.

Llywydd, this is the second full term in which the Senedd has exercised full law-making powers. In a five-year term that has been dominated by Brexit and the pandemic, our legislative workload has reflected that mix. We have made 72 Welsh EU exit statutory instruments and consented to a further 219 UK EU SIs, as we made sure our statute book was ready for Brexit. The legislative impact of coronavirus has dominated the work of the Senedd for nearly 12 months, placing huge demands on the legal resources of the Welsh Government. We have made and renewed the legislation that has kept Wales safe on more than 120 occasions. And all this while also passing 17 new laws, with another three still before the Senedd. When considered together, our legislative programme has widened the franchise in local government elections, provided greater security for renters, laid the groundwork for our new curriculum, protected children by prohibiting the use of physical punishment, introduced minimum alcohol pricing, abolished the right to buy, repealed oppressive anti-trade union laws, and created the first Welsh taxes for almost 800 years, using those powers for progressive purposes.

Llywydd, the annual report sets out clearly how this Welsh Government has worked through the toughest of circumstances to improve the lives of people in Wales in practical ways that make a real difference. These achievements are an investment in a better Wales now and in the future, and have helped to keep our people safe in the face of this year's challenges. Those challenges have not gone away, and neither has this Government's priorities of protecting the health service, safeguarding jobs and working hard everyday for a more equal Wales. That is how we begin to look forward to reconstruction, that is how we can create a future that is fairer, and better because it is fairer. The record of this Government is a source of pride, and, most importantly, a source of hope. I invite the Senedd to consider the annual report.