Dirprwy Lywydd, for 30 years I worked as a lawyer in employment and trade union legislation, and year after year I saw the consequences of Tory reductions in workers' rights and the voice of working people. Nothing has changed since then, other than that when I came into this Senedd, and we had legislative powers, and we started to develop a series of laws and legislation that began to try and restore some of those protections, even within the limited competence that we had. We supported the union learning fund. We gave rights to agricultural workers when they were being abolished in England. We opposed the blacklisting of trade union members at a time when, in England, there were many complicit in that activity. We abolished zero-hours contracts for care workers and, more recently, we have opposed trade union restrictions that were being imposed in England that, fortunately, we've been able to restrain within Wales.

So, very important in this legislation, following on from the statement made by Hannah Blythyn earlier, are really two very important pieces within the legislative programme, some of which will have to carry through, and they are the social partnership Bill, but also the implementation of section 1 of the Equality Act 2010. We must not underestimate the importance of these within our COVID environment at the moment and as we come out of COVID, because the one thing that we all say in common is that things can't go back to how they were, which means they cannot go back to how they were in terms of jobs, zero-hours contracts, bogus self-employment and austerity for working people. So, the social partnership Bill, which is going to go out for consultation, I think is one of the pinnacles of the legislative programme of this Government. It really enables us to almost implement a future generations legislation for working people, for workplaces to establish ethical standards of employment.

So, I very much welcome that, because I know two things about Tory Governments, the two things that they always do: one is they cut taxes for the rich and the second is they always gag the voice of working people. So, this legislation is something that is radical and an opportunity for Welsh legislation to really make a mark for the future. And I'd be grateful, First Minister, if you could perhaps expand on the consultation that will take place and the sort of timetable you envisage, going through into the next Senedd to the next Labour Government.