Diolch i Jane Dodds. On a very sobering day, it's utterly sobering to imagine that the people who manage on the very least in our society and see their bills going up all the time might be faced with their benefits not even being uprated in line with inflation, as was promised in the Conservative manifesto of 2019. I agree with Penny Mordaunt, who said that it would be unthinkable for that to happen.

Last week, I asked the leader of the opposition here whether he would add his voice to the campaign to ensure that the very least well-off in our society were protected by their benefits being uprated in line with inflation. I offer him that opportunity again this afternoon. He'll join many Conservatives who believe that that ought to be the case. If it's not, everything else that we are seeing that will impact on the lives of those people will be made even less bearable by the actions of a Government that will have chosen its priorities—as we know, lifting the cap on bankers' bonuses while being prepared to cut the benefits of the least well-off. 

That is certainly felt in housing, as Jane Dodds has said. Discretionary housing payments were cut by the last Conservative Government. They are such a useful tool for local authorities, they are exactly the sort of thing that Peter Fox was referring to earlier. It is local money that allows a local authority to respond to the particular sets of circumstances that they face and what they can do to intervene with those discretionary payments to prevent the far more expensive route of families being taken into homelessness. We are doing our best in this financial year to put more money of our money in to compensate for the loss of UK money in this area. But, it will just be one more of a very long list of things that we will not be able to sustain at the current level if our budgets are reduced in the way that we now see being promised.