Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I thank Jack Sargeant for giving me a minute? I agree with everything that Jack Sargeant and Sarah Murphy have said about fire and rehire, but I am not going to rehearse that. I'm going to move on to another topic about how workers are treated so badly, and that's wages.

The minimum wage was brought in over 20 years ago, but we've now reached the stage where we should be legislating for the real living wage. The real living wage is based on the cost of living and is currently voluntarily paid by over 7,000 employers. In April 2016, the Conservative Government introduced a higher minimum wage rate for all staff over 25 years of age, and misnamed it the national living wage. It is many things, but it is not a living wage.

The minimum wage is not calculated according to what employees and their families need to live. It is based on reaching 66 per cent of median earnings by 2024. Currently it is over £1 an hour less than the real living wage. What does that mean? It means that, for somebody working 40 hours, they get £40 less, and to many of them, that is their food bill for the week. And I think that is the point for people: many people are working full time and are still in poverty. People should not be in poverty when they're working full-time. We need people to be paid a real living wage, and driving down wages and paying everybody the minimum wage does nothing for improving people's productivity, and does nothing for people's lives.