In that context, Llywydd, we will do everything that we can to support people through this crisis. Policies across the 20 years of devolution have put money back in people's pockets: free bus travel for an increasing number of Welsh citizens; free prescriptions for all; free breakfasts in our primary schools and now, free school dinners as well; we've retained the educational maintenance allowance; we've carried on with the council tax benefit; we have the most generous system of student support anywhere in the United Kingdom; and, in September, we'll expand further the most generous childcare offer of any UK nation. Now, Llywydd, there are many more things to which I could point, but I'll make this general point instead: every single one of these measures leaves money in the pockets of Welsh families to help them respond to the cost-of-living crisis. And now, we are going further again. We are providing £380 million to help households, including our winter fuel support payment—a £200 payment for households in receipt of qualifying benefits and a new network of fuel banks in every local authority in Wales.

Llywydd, following the unprovoked attack on the sovereign and independent people of Ukraine, the generosity and kindness of the people of Wales has been steadfast. Almost 3,700 people from Ukraine have now arrived, sponsored by people across Wales and through our supersponsor scheme, and this number grows every day. At the same time, we've given sanctuary to those fleeing the conflicts in Afghanistan and in Syria. To be a nation of sanctuary is an ambition that speaks directly to the sort of country that we want Wales to be. Living up to that ambition takes hard work every single day, but it's work that, as a Government, we are determined to carry out.

Now, Llywydd, we have faced other challenges too throughout this year. The climate and nature emergency has continued unabated, and we have, of course, had to deal with the challenge of working with a UK Government intent on rolling back the clock on devolution at every opportunity. But despite all of these, we have continued to deliver for Wales and we have continued to stand up for Wales.

Llywydd, in last May's election, my party put six key pledges before the electorate. The first was completed within 12 weeks of the election day, when we confirmed full funding for an extra 100 police community support officers—officers who do so much to keep our communities safe. We said that we would address the long waiting times that have built up during the pandemic and we have put in place an ambitious catch-up programme, backed by £1 billion-worth of funding. And we're now beginning to see reductions in those long waiting times for treatment, for diagnostic tests and for therapies.

In education, we set out our ambitious renew and reform plan to ensure that no child or young person is left behind because of the impact of the pandemic on their lives. We said that we would fund 1,800 more school staff to support learners and we've appointed and retained more than that number to provide the vital support that our children need. We promised a young person's guarantee, and in November, we launched this bold programme, providing an offer of work, education, training or self-employment to everyone under 25 in Wales, and in just four months, Llywydd, more than 2,700 people have already accessed that service.

Llywydd, I was very proud that we were able to make such quick progress to introduce the real living wage for social care staff. We can now press on with work to improve the terms and conditions of those workers across the whole of the sector.

In this Senedd term, for the first time, we have a climate change ministry, drawing together everything we can do to tackle the climate and nature emergency. We're committed to reaching net zero by 2050. In October we published Net Zero Wales, setting out how we will meet our carbon budgeting targets. And in that month, the global climate conference COP26 saw Welsh Ministers participating and committing ourselves to work with others, for example, through the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, demonstrating our international commitment to tackling that emergency.

Closer to home, we must plant more trees to offset the damage already caused to our climate. We will establish a national forest for Wales, we will create three commemorative woodlands in north Wales, west Wales and south Wales to remember all those who sadly lost their lives during the pandemic. And we will reward farmers who plant the trees we need in Wales. And, Llywydd, the trees we need include commercial forests, so that our houses of the future can be constructed from timber grown here in Wales. That's why we've doubled the budget for the social housing grant this year to £250 million and announced a further significant increase in the budget for each of the next three years, to help us to meet our target of building 20,000 more low-carbon social homes for rent.

Now, Llywydd, our well-being objectives commit us to celebrating diversity and eliminating inequality, and in the first year of this Senedd, we've taken significant strides towards that aim. We've established a disability rights taskforce, we've consulted on our LGBTQ+ action plan, we've strengthened our commitment to ending violence against women with our new violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence strategy, and last month, we published our 'Anti-racist Wales Action Plan', putting us on the path to becoming an anti-racist nation by 2030. And as our new Curriculum for Wales is introduced from September, we will ensure that diversity is recognised, as the teaching of black, Asian and minority ethnic histories becomes mandatory here in Wales.

Llywydd, there's so much more covered in the pages of this annual report to which I cannot possibly do justice this afternoon. Our steps to reform the school day and the school year, the new curriculum in our schools, our actions to expand early years education and the use of the Welsh language, the national music service, the basic income pilot, the ambitious legislative programme that I set out only last week. These are just some of the many achievements that are highlighted in the first annual report of this term. That report demonstrates that, despite the challenges we have faced over the last year, we have continued to provide stable, focused and ethical government for the people of Wales. Over the course of this Senedd term, we will continue to work towards our well-being objectives, to secure that stronger, fairer and greener Wales.