I'm grateful to you, Presiding Officer, and grateful to you, Minister, for your statement this afternoon. I hope that you do continue to recover from COVID, and I think people across the Chamber want to wish you well with that.

Like others, I want to congratulate you on the appointment of Derek Vaughan. Those of us who've worked with Derek Vaughan in the past in the institutions of the European Union know how effective he's been standing up for Wales, and we look forward to seeing him continue to do that.

In terms of your statement this afternoon, I agree very much with much of what you said, but I want to ask you one question, Minister, and I want to ask you to do one thing in the coming years: I want you to tell this Chamber and the people of Wales the truth about Brexit. I want you to tell us and I want you to come to this Chamber at least once every quarter to give an assessment of the damage that is being done to this country as a consequence of Brexit and the impact it is having. We have seen lost businesses, we've seen lost trade, we've seen lost funding, and the Tories laugh. One of the most extraordinary things about this statement this afternoon is the more people talk about the funding that is lost to the people of Wales, the more their backbench laugh. At least their frontbench is wise enough to know the damage this is doing to this country.

I hope, Minister, that you will be able to speak to how we are losing opportunities, but creating barriers—barriers to business, increased bureaucracy, increased red tape. It doesn't matter to them because they don't give a damn. We know what the Tory leader said about business; I won't repeat it this afternoon, but they've made it their objective of policy, and that's the only policy in which they are succeeding.