A well-connected, integrated travel network that's affordable and modern for Wales, is that really too much to ask? Well, it seems so. Transport underpins the functioning of any society. It plays a fundamental role in enabling access to work, learning, health services, social and cultural activities. If our access to transport options is not questioned, then we will continue to see an increasing decline in the Welsh Government's approach to improving transport here in Wales. But I suppose you could say, though, when you do have access to a ministerial car, it is all too easy to forget how most other people get around.

Data shows that the number of people commuting has increased from 1.1 million people in 2001 to 1.3 million people in 2019, a rise of 16.8 per cent. With the onset of the cost-of-living crisis, an increase in the population of Wales, this is surely going to rise significantly further as people begin to seek more cost-effective avenues of getting to work. 

However, even though there's been an uptick in people using rail and bus services, it is nowhere near enough if we are to put public transport at the heart of our fight against climate change. A YouGov poll found that 22 per cent of Welsh residents believe that rail provision is bad in their area—and I agree—with 11 per cent responding that they do not have any local train services at all. More so, 11,000 train services have been cancelled by TfW over the last three years. Between January and October 2021, there were 28 services that were more than an hour late, and at least 340 train services that were late by 15 to 30 minutes during the same period. As a result of the inefficient services, TfW has paid out—[Interruption.] Come on, if this is good, why—? TfW have paid out £2.23 million in compensation to passengers since 2018. When the TfW chief executive is describing himself the train service in Wales as not acceptable, you know something has gone terribly wrong and you know there's no need—[Interruption.]

Rolling stock of the TfW network is the most obvious, depleted and old. The trains being run today are not environmentally friendly, and indeed far from modern. And I have to say that the train I went back on last week was absolutely filthy, but anyway. They belong in the history books—[Interruption.] Yes, of course.