Well, I'd like to thank Mark Isherwood for his long-standing chairing of the cross-party group on disability—and I always welcome the invitation to come, as you know, Mark, to meet with the stakeholders, partners and disabled people who come together when you chair that cross-party group—and also the fact that you do raise these issues, and they're raised in a cross-party spirit, raising with me in Welsh Govenrment. But I do have to say that, actually, the disability equality forum—and the membership crosses over between the disability equality forum—was the first port of call that I met with as the pandemic took hold in March 2020, and their impact and the advice and the guidance from that disability equality forum has steered and actually changed the way the Welsh Government has responded to the pandemic, affecting disabled people. And of course, then, we encouraged and enabled this 'Locked out' report to help take us forward in terms of the disability rights taskforce, which I'm sure we will be coming to discuss at the cross-party group very shortly. 

It was important that the Deputy Minister for Climate Change set up an expert taskforce group to tackle issues around access to pavements—the access to pavements disability code, which was very important in terms of the impacts of that. We had a working group set up to draft new enforcement guidance for local authorities, to bring legislation in in the summer of 2022, taking action where vehicles, for example, were causing obstruction on the pavement. This is a cross-Government responsibility in terms of ensuring that we do meet the needs of disabled people.

During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, I chaired eight disability equality forums. We did have discussions on a variety of concerns, but also, as I said, influencing new strategies like the national transport strategy and the COVID-19 sub-group just also having an impact on leading to this disability rights taskforce.

I think it's very important also in terms of public bodies, and you mentioned those, and the fact is there is a variety of implementation, and that's why the Welsh Local Government Association has committed to our disability rights taskforce—they're sitting on the taskforce—and also we are reviewing the public sector equality duty, and that is crucial in terms of the public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010. We are committed ourselves as a Government to being an exemplar employer as well, and also we're aligning research findings in the recently published report on strengthening and advancing equality and human rights with the review of the public sector equality duty. I've already answered questions about the social services and well-being Act, the duty for local authorities and health boards to work together and assess needs, and also, in terms of autism, the statutory code of practice on the delivery of autism services, a programme for government commitment. Of course, it came into effect in September this year.