In my brief contribution to this debate, I just wanted to make a few general comments on just one or two of the key areas in the final budget. I'll open by saying that I am very pleased to be supporting it, because unlike the UK Tory Government's budget, this Welsh budget is putting our NHS and our vital public services first—public services that have again shown us their true value and their worth—while the UK Government has again shown clearly that this is a worth that they don't recognise. The budget will also provide further support to Welsh businesses, despite what Caroline Jones is saying. We all hope that they start to emerge from the worst days of this pandemic, because businesses have been living on a knife edge for the last year, but in Wales, we've had a Government that has committed to supporting them more generously than anywhere else in the UK. Who knows how many businesses and jobs would otherwise have been permanently lost to our economy without that support? 

The budget will also ensure that the incredible roll-out of the biggest vaccination programme in our history continues to be supported and builds upon the success of our made-in-Wales track and trace system—a system, again, that is delivered here by our public services working for and in the interest of public service and not private profit. Thankfully, because of the decisions made by this Welsh Labour Government, Wales has avoided the scandal of the wasted billions that we've seen in England. I'm also pleased to see the support given to building more homes. We've seen such good progress on this already, but there's still so much more to do if we're to meet the needs of so many people that I see in my constituency who need access to an affordable home, whether that is to buy or to rent.

But of course, we know that many of our aims will be undermined if the UK Chancellor does not deliver a sustainable boost in our spending. This is where I absolutely agree with Alun Davies that our message to the Chancellor must be that now is not the time to start tightening the purse strings. If the last 10 years has told us anything, it is that austerity is not a sustainable way to manage the economy, as it embeds and deepens inequality. Austerity left our public services ill equipped to deal with a crisis as huge as the pandemic. It left most of the vulnerable in our society even more vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic and it weakened many sectors of our economy that will need support for many years to come if we're to rebuild fairer after this crisis subsides. Now is absolutely not the time to return to Tory austerity. Now is the time to rebuild this country so that we have a fairer society and a fairer economy. The UK Tory Government has shown us that it won't do that, but this budget, delivered by a Welsh Labour Government, is showing how we can. I'm proud to be supporting this budget, Llywydd, and I'm proud to be supporting our Welsh Labour Government.