Well, I’m glad you manged to finally—[Interruption.] I'm glad you finally managed to correct yourself there, but I’m a Senedd Member, and my job is to deal with what’s devolved to the Welsh Government, and what’s devolved to the Welsh Government is public transport for Wales. Hence the reason my contribution is tailored towards the infrastructure that is run from here in Cardiff, and not by Westminster.

So, the distance covered by buses in Wales has fallen significantly under this Labour Government, with many service reductions affecting residents in the Vale of Clwyd, in particular, residents of Roundwood Avenue in Meliden, who feel as though they have lost a lifeline now that their area has been removed from the local circular bus route, and they now have to walk almost half a mile to reach their nearest stop on the route, which is no small feat for older people or those with limited mobility. Although certainly exacerbated by the pandemic, this follows a trend of gradual decline over the last decade.

Then we come to arguably the biggest infrastructure and transport failure presided over by this Government, which is car travel. Consecutive Labour Governments have failed to build an adequate road network in 23 years of government. Despite the volume of traffic increasing by nearly 25 per cent over the past two decades, the road network has only increased by 3.3 per cent here in Wales, and we still see no major improvements to the A55, running through my constituency, which, as we head into the summer months, I’m sure will be overwhelmed by the increase in traffic related to tourism, tourism that we should be encouraging and welcoming in north Wales, not putting people off coming here due to anticipating road delays and tailbacks. And as we push for more environmentally friendly travel options on the road, such as switching to electric cars, Wales only has 35 charging devices per 100,000 people, compared to the 54 in Scotland and the 46 in England per 100,000.

There has been a clear theme to this speech today, and many other speeches delivered in this debate this afternoon, and it’s one of decades of failure by this Labour Government to solve and fix the pressing transport issues facing Welsh people today on a day-to-day basis. We fail to see any Minister hold their hands up and admit they’ve got it wrong time and time again. Instead, we get false promises, hot air and more dither and delay whilst our constituents struggle. Even earlier today, the Minister for Climate Change addressed my concerns about poor forward planning during major events such as Chester races and sports events, with crowded carriages on the north Wales line, by deflecting the blame to Network Rail, despite this being under the scope of Transport for Wales and the Welsh Government, which I alluded to in the intervention.

Wales needs and deserves an integrated modern transport infrastructure fit for the twenty-first century. This Labour Government should be striving to ensure that the Welsh population are able to use public transport as a viable alternative to private car use. Sadly, the evidence points to the contrary, and, with a moratorium on road building now in place, I expect to see things get worse before they get better, and the truth is, Minister, Wales deserves better.