First Minister, can I welcome the annual report on the delivery of the programme for government? After the last 12 months that we've all experienced, it's an excellent reminder to me that the many hours spent online have been time well spent supporting this Welsh Government through the pandemic, and in continuing to deliver on the manifesto promises that we made at the 2016 election. Because I know that, aside from the necessary actions to get us through the pandemic, the communities of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney have been well served by some of the core policies of this Welsh Government, whether that is, as you've already outlined, First Minister, in extending free school meals, council tax support, free prescriptions, free childcare, all-age apprenticeships, support for small businesses, access to the new treatments fund, and so much more.

My constituents have also benefited from capital investment in education, in health, in town centre regeneration and in transport. I've had the pleasure of attending the opening of new and refurbished schools at Ysgol Idris Davies in Rhymney, and Ysgol Afon Tâf in Troed-y-rhiw, with other new schools in the pipeline. We will shortly open a new bus station in Merthyr Tydfil, which has the potential to become a new transport hub for the area. Our rail lines and stations are being upgraded, and we will soon see four trains an hour between Merthyr, Rhymney and Cardiff, opening up opportunities for people to live and work more easily in these Valleys communities, all of which will be so important in the post-COVID recovery if we are to build back fairer.

We will complete the improvements to the Heads of the Valleys road, which has the potential to deliver a real economic stimulus to the northern Valleys along the A465 corridor, and we will see continued investment in Prince Charles Hospital, with a further £220 million announced just last October, ensuring that we not only have world-class services being delivered by an amazing NHS workforce, but world-class facilities in which to do so as well.

Now, I'm not here to say that the job is done, because it never is, and despite all the benefits of policies delivered by the Welsh Government, and the difference that I've seen them make to so many lives, I know that we always have more to do, and the challenges that face our communities post COVID cannot be underestimated. But for now, I am proud to represent the party of Government in Wales that has delivered on its promises to my constituency. Diolch.