I also support this budget, and I again commend the Minister and the Welsh Labour Government for the twin commitment of tackling ambitiously the successful efforts in Wales to bear down on the pandemic and to start the process of building back our economy fairer, after a decade of starvation of funding and underinvestment to Wales. It is also right that the Welsh Government has reliably and properly put its supplementary budgets before this place, unlike the UK Government. And, although I welcome very much today's update from the finance Minister around her negotiations, it remains not right that Wales is consistently and constantly, more often than not, denied immediate flexibility to use our own money, and often treated like a backwater Government department. We are an equal partner within the UK nations, and we should be able to govern as such. It's also worrying that 20 years on in a devolved Wales, the UK Government seem determined to undermine and frustrate Wales's democratic mandate of a mature devolved fiscal governance framework.

Deputy Llywydd, this final budget adds £682.2 million for COVID-19 efforts, including £630 million to extend public contact tracing to protect core NHS services, and to support local authorities for the first six months of 2021-22. It is no underestimate to say that this money will support Wales's vaccination programme, which is one of the most successful in the world. A million vaccinations is a wonderful testimony to the Welsh Government, the NHS and all those who are delivering for Wales.

Deputy Llywydd, we see, in this final budget, the socialism of this Welsh Labour Government as we set out how we build back a truly fairer Wales: a strong capital package of more than £220 million to pump prime the Welsh economy. This is Keynesian economics at its very best. £147 million to ramp up house building, £30 million for our ambitious school buildings programme to help create jobs. But, then again, what do we see across the political aisle? Well, it's already been said: nothing but wasted billions of public money on appalling track and trace and just political expediency and opportunism, despite Wales providing the highest support package of all the UK nations. So, maybe I can forgive the Tory UK leadership here for not having time—and the Welsh Tory leadership—for doing their arithmetic, but I do not forgive them for not standing up for Wales. It is a fact that in 2021, the Welsh Labour Government committed hundreds of millions more in funding for business support in Wales than it has received in consequentials.

And in closing, Deputy Llywydd, I believe, whether you are young or old in Wales, a business, or whether you're a schoolchild, a lone parent or a family home schooling around that kitchen table, we know that this Welsh Labour Government is on your side. This budget does deliver for the people of Wales and their priorities, and we will emerge from this coronavirus pandemic, ready and able to build back better a fairer Wales, and for the many and not just the privileged few. Thank you.