Llywydd, I thank Buffy Williams for that. She's absolutely right to point to the vital importance of the social care workforce and the pressures that it too is under. There are actions that could be taken to help us to alleviate that. On 12 October, Ministers here, together with their counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland, wrote to the UK Government on immigration matters, including social care. I raised directly with the Prime Minister the urgent need to have social care on the shortage occupation list. This is a problem not just in Wales but right across the United Kingdom, exacerbated in England by the loss of, as the UK Government itself estimates, 40,000 workers to the sector on 11 November, when compulsory vaccination became part of the repertoire across our border.

I join the Member absolutely, Llywydd, in congratulating RCT council on moving ahead with paying the real living wage. We'll have more to say about that, of course, when our budget is laid next month. As to immediate help, we published £40 million-worth of additional help in the recovery fund in September; a further £42 million to deal with social care pressures last month; and, by today, we expect to have had all of the plans in from our regional partnership boards for investment from that fund—£10 million to those regional partnership boards where health and social care agencies come together—and hope that those plans will allow us to release that money to them as soon as possible so that they can start making the difference we know the sector needs to see.