I thank Members for identifying the role local authorities can and do play. They are crucial to help us in these action plans that we can take here in Wales, not just the Welsh Government, but working with local government and the third sector as well. Further announcements are coming forward from the Welsh Government on our household support grant.

It's crucial that we look to our discretionary assistance fund with the extra £14.7 million for the current financial year and, as has been called for, and we're implementing, in continuing those flexibilities, allowing for a greater number and greater frequency of payments for people impacted by the cost-of-living crisis and the withdrawal of the universal credit £20 uplift. But we've also reinstituted our winter fuel assistance from the discretionary assistance fund for off-grid homes, boiler repair grants until the end of March 2022, and, as has been called for, we're running a national benefits take-up campaign, ensuring people receive the financial support that they're entitled to. Again, as has been mentioned, pension credit, it's crucial that we have that campaign, working with the older people's commissioner. Actually, our campaign in March last year did result in a huge uptake of £651,000-plus claimed by those entitled to benefits. I strongly urge the UK Government to run a similar campaign, as have the Scottish Ministers as well, to relieve those financial pressures that they're experiencing.

I'd like to just very quickly say 'thank you' to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. Your review on indebtedness—and we responded to that positively last week—was crucial, and you've got a forthcoming inquiry into fuel poverty. The integrity of your work has helped to inform and shape our response to these vital issues, and I think that's part of what the Plaid motion is calling for, that we all work together in this way to make that difference we can make in Wales. Because we do have a more generous social wage in Wales, through initiatives such as our council tax reduction scheme, free prescriptions, the effect of leaving money in the pockets of Welsh citizens. And the tenancy support fund has been mentioned—the £10 million tenancy support fund—which is now not just supporting the private sector, but social housing tenants struggling to repay significant rent arrears. Again, listening to all the points that have been made in this debate this afternoon, our single advice fund, integrated services during the first six months of this year, helping people again to make additional claims of income. And we mustn't forget our self-isolation support scheme, which has actually helped people who are unable to work because they're legally required to self-isolate, and nearly £29 million has been claimed to date.

I just want to finally acknowledge that our co-operation agreement with Plaid Cymru has enabled us to commit to extending free school meals. It's been mentioned in this debate, but seeing an additional 196,000 primary school-aged children benefit from the offer of a free, healthy school meal, that's crucially important in how Wales is responding to the cost-of-living crisis. We're also moving forward in terms of the funding for childcare for more families, when parents are in education, and also looking to an extension of support through Welsh-medium education as well.

We have got other measures. We've got the young people's guarantee, we've got the real living wage, the commitment to extend that with the First Minister and Deputy Minister for Social Partnership writing to all public bodies to encourage them to lead by example, and our Warm Homes programme benefiting since 2010-11 67,100 households and many more.

So, my final point is that these initiatives are making a real difference to the lives of low-income households, but we are aware, as energy prices rise and inflation increases, we need to do more. So, I am organising a round-table conference with key stakeholders, bringing together all the stakeholders and ministerial colleagues on 17 February, very much responding to calls today in this motion to determine what more we can do with the policy levers available to us, and develop that plan of action that will support households across Wales who are at a very real risk of financial harm.

But we have to continue to make the strongest representations alongside Scotland and Northern Ireland to the UK Government, which has proven itself callously indifferent to the challenges that people are facing. So, will the Welsh Conservatives, if they're backing this motion, join us in backing our representations that we're making to the UK Government? It is your responsibility now, if you back our motion, to do that, to join us and to back our representations to the UK Government. Back them to make sure they give additional support to schemes such as the warm home discount—