Llywydd, I do understand that the headline numbers disguise the fact that many of those people will not be working full time and that patterns of work in the health service have altered. But even if you look at those full-time-equivalent figures, there are nearly 10,000 more staff working in the NHS today than there were just three years ago. So, while it is true that work patterns are changing and people are choosing to work fewer hours than they once did, even when you take that into account, there is a very significant rise in the number of people working in the Welsh NHS.

As to the future, the only way that you can offer a sustainable solution to Welsh NHS staffing is by investing in the training of people for the future. Everywhere in the Welsh NHS, we are training more people today than ever before. We had a 55 per cent increase in the number of student nurses between 2016 and 2022; a 95 per cent increase in the same period in the number of people training to be district nurses; a 97 per cent increase in the number of people studying to become midwives; an over 300 per cent increase in the number of students who will emerge from Welsh universities as pharmacists to work in the Welsh NHS. That is true of doctors as well as nurses and those professions allied to medicine.

We are increasing the number of places at the Cardiff medical school and at the Swansea medical school, and, of course, we are creating a new clinical school in north Wales, and there will be further numbers there. If you look over the period ahead for which we have plans, in August 2019 we had 339 what are called F1 and F2 posts in Wales; that will be 450 by August 2024. Those are all extra doctors coming into the system, trained here in Wales. We know they're more likely to work in Wales as a result, and that's why we can offer some comfort to those people who, rightly, are occupied by the stresses and strains that the system currently faces.