Thank you very much, Altaf Hussain, and thank you for your questions this afternoon. It is an important question: what has changed? In my statement, I have laid out a number of examples of how we have sought to make change, particularly as a result of the 'Locked out' report, which did shine such a light on the adverse impact of COVID-19 on disabled people. So, I will say again that the disability rights taskforce, setting that up has been a vital step forward. It's going to take forward the way we address inequalities highlighted by 'Locked out: liberating disabled people's lives and rights in Wales beyond COVID-19'. But most importantly, overseeing the implementation of actions in conjunction with our partners across the public, private and voluntary sectors. And it was so important that we had people with lived experience. I co-chaired it with Professor Debbie Foster, but we also had representation from the Welsh Local Government Association and our steering group of disabled people, many of whom also sit on our disability equality forum. The taskforce is crucial in that common understanding that we have to take forward this work on the principles of the social model of disability, and recognise the implementation gap that can quite often emerge between policy development and the delivery of services. So, we're committed to introducing a 2050 national milestone focused on pay equality and the gender, disability and ethnicity pay gap and much broader work on refreshing our national milestones as well.

I have mentioned, Llywydd, the elected office fund, because this is crucial in terms of enabling more people to stand for office in the local government elections forthcoming in 2022 and, of course, our elections earlier this year. This fund is aimed at helping disabled people to compete on a level playing field with non-disabled candidates. Two people did access the fund for support to participate in the Senedd elections, and this is going to be crucial for the local government elections next year. The scope of the fund has been extended to cover disabled candidates standing for community and town councils in the elections for 2022, so it is important that we draw attention to this today and the opportunities that will come forward. There are some access-to-politics events that are being hosted by Disability Wales.

I also want to mention the disabled people's employment champions. We have five disabled people's employment champions, all of whom have lived experience of the barriers faced in gaining employment. I spoke on Friday—I spoke last week—at an event that was organised by Admiral insurance with the MS Society. It's very important that the private sector is taking—. We recognise that they're taking a leading role, recognising that they can actually benefit from the employment of disabled people in their workforce. There were many employers there from the private and public sectors, but one of our disabled people's employment champions, Terry, spoke about the work that he's doing to help employers understand that they can really make a change in terms of the way that employers and employability providers think about disabled people's employment. So, we have an employer toolkit; the business skills gateway website hosts our employer toolkit. Also, of course, we are working towards a social model of disability training and employment e-learning module for employers as well.

It is very important that we enable disabled people to maximise the take-up of welfare benefits, with the cruel cuts that have taken place. We recognise that those cruel cuts—the £20 cut to universal credit—affected thousands of disabled people who are recognised as not being able to work. It's crucial that they can then take part in the Claim what's yours campaign and benefit from the £50 million household living grants fund that I recently announced.

I think, finally, just in terms of looking at issues around access to employment—not just employment protection, but rights as well—you will know that in our programme for government we have a commitment, and it's a commitment that I know your colleagues in the Welsh Conservatives would welcome, that we are seeking to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities into Welsh law. It's certainly supported by our party, by the Welsh Labour Government, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats as well. It's important that the UN convention on disabled people's rights actually is embedded into Welsh law. We've undertaken research—the 'Strengthening and advancing equalities and human rights in Wales' research report—to actually help us move this forward, and I will be able to update the Siambr when we have progress on this, working with the Counsel General on this point.