6. Will the First Minister identify the funding provided by the Welsh Government's annual budget in areas outside its executive responsibilities? OQ56490

Well, Llywydd, we've stepped in to protect the interests of Welsh people across a range of non-devolved responsibilities, from transport to broadband, from funding police community support officers to supporting EU nationals applying for settled status. The Thomas commission concluded that 38 per cent of total justice expenditure in Wales—all of that non-devolved responsibilities—now comes from the Welsh Government and Welsh local authorities. 

First Minister, it's clear that, if the Welsh Conservatives win the Senedd election, one of the first things they will do is sack 500 police community support officers in Wales. At their last UK conference, the leader of the Welsh Conservatives made their position completely clear when he said:

'Those things that are devolved will be managed by my Government, and those things which are not devolved will be managed by Boris.'

And he went on to say that they will defund what is not devolved. That is their promise, First Minister.

Community safety is at the forefront of all our minds at the moment. Policing is not devolved, yet the 500 police community support officers are paid for by the Welsh Government because a Tory Government won't. In Pontypridd, we value their contribution to public safety and the role that they have played during the COVID pandemic, and we see what a difference they make in helping to solve anti-social behaviour. Will you confirm your continued support and commitment to community safety and the role of our Welsh police community support officers?

Well, Llywydd, I'm very happy to confirm that, if this Government is returned to office, those 500 police community support officers are secure in all parts of Wales and that we will add to them as well. As the Member said, the approach of the Welsh Conservatives is crystal clear. They laid it out at their conference: if it's not devolved, they won't fund it. That's what the then leader of the party said. I heard Mark Isherwood try to deny that earlier this afternoon, but I'm afraid that people in Wales heard what his party said—'if it's not devolved, we won't be funding it.' Police community support officers are not devolved; they are part of the justice system that his Government refuses to devolve, in any part, to Wales. We will fund them here in Wales. It's no use, Llywydd, Conservative Members looking at me like a set of superannuated goldfish on the screen here, a sort of lumpendinosauriat of Welsh politics. This Government is clear; we will go on making sure that people in Wales are safe. The Conservative Party not only removed 40 per cent of police and crime officers, they robbed us of 500 police officers as well.