Thank you very much. So, in my contribution, if I may continue, Deputy Presiding Officer, I'd like to focus on emergency waiting times initially and how, quite frankly, we see this area continuing to fail. The statistics are shocking. As already outlined today, we see one in five on a waiting list; one in four in Wales waiting over 52 weeks for an appointment; and, in addition to this, since just August we've seen those waiting over two years more than treble across Wales.

Now, in looking at my region in north Wales, the health board in north Wales has more people on waiting lists than any other health board in Wales, and I'm afraid these statistics continue to get worse when looking at those in accident and emergency units. Within four hours, we see some of the worst waiting times in accident and emergency units—within four hours—in Wales than anywhere else across Britain. They are deeply concerning statistics. Again, coming back to my region in north Wales, for example in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, one of the main hospitals in north Wales, one in four patients had to wait in accident and emergency for over 12 hours. Looking at ambulance response times, north Wales has one of the worst response times in Wales. I've stood up here before and talked about this north-south divide, and, again, in terms of health outcomes and health performances, we see a north-south divide. Health is not performing anywhere near as well in north Wales as it is across in other places in Wales. I come back to this point: 23 years to solve some of these issues. We do forget sometimes, sadly, that people are paying for this service. People are paying through their taxes to sit in accident and emergency for over 12 hours; people are paying to wait for hours and hours and hours for an ambulance to turn up to help them out. This really isn't acceptable.

The second area to focus on, I believe, is the cancer waiting times. Staggeringly, prior to the pandemic, the target for cancer waiting times had not been met since 2008. In addition to this, the Welsh cancer intelligence unit's data sadly shows that Wales has the lowest survival rates for six cancers and the second lowest for three cancers in all of the UK. Of course, deeply concerning for patients and families up and down Wales. It's clear to me that the plans that the Welsh Government have are not working.

When looking at some of the most up-to-date statistics, we can see that the Welsh Government is still failing on cancer targets. In February this year, just 59 per cent of patients newly diagnosed with cancer started their first definitive treatment within 62 days of first being suspected of cancer—well below the 75 per cent target. Again, it's worrying for patients and families across Wales that these targets are being missed. I mentioned it in my contribution earlier, Minister, in terms of the question. My worry for much of this—and we'll stand here and we'll highlight these issues—is the trust that this erodes in the health service and in the targets and the actions that the Government are looking to take to improve the health service. If that trust goes, then we're really, really struggling to bring our residents along with us.