Thank you, Minister. I want to begin by highlighting a few points on health, and I'll touch on a few other areas as well. Firstly, I want to address the £120 million allocated to health and social services to support a pay settlement for NHS staff. While I and my Conservative colleagues welcome the increase in funding for the settlement, it is frustrating that the Welsh Government has had the money for this settlement all along. What is more frustrating is that the Welsh NHS spent approximately £260 million on agency and bank staff in 2021-22. If the Welsh Government had listened to our calls to establish a workforce plan years ago, there would be additional funding to support overworked NHS staff.

Under the second supplementary budget, the funding allocated towards mental health policies and legislation is £71.3 million, a reduction of £9.4 million compared to the first supplementary budget. We have consistently heard from Ministers that the supplementary budget focuses on priority areas, and so it is disheartening to see a reduction of funding to an area that covers mental health policy development and delivery, including CAMHS, suicide and self-harm prevention, funding for third-sector organisations and the healthcare needs of vulnerable groups, including support for veterans, sexual assault referral centres and asylum seekers and refugees. The cut in funding comes as a Time to Change Wales survey found that over half the respondents had either an experience of a mental health problem or knew someone who did in the 12 months up to the survey.

Turning to education, at a time when Labour Government Ministers have been telling us that raising school standards is an underlying objective of education reform, it is baffling that support for school standards has been cut by over £0.5 million. Additional learning needs has also experienced a cut in funding, despite the National Association of Head Teachers stating that 92 per cent of school leaders reported that funding for pupils with additional learning needs was insufficient. While I welcome pay rise offers to teachers, it is crucial that Labour Ministers do not lose sight of the fact that these strikes are occurring as a direct result of understaffing and overworked teachers. It is vital that more is done to resolve the workload pressures that many teachers are facing and increase the number of teachers in Welsh schools.

From an environmental perspective, again, it is concerning that Natural Resources Wales has had its funding decreased by almost £0.5 million, ignoring warnings that the organisation is underfunded and overworked, even though it's an area that we are expecting them to deliver so much for us on.

Going forward, Minister, it is vital that the Labour Government focuses on funding the priorities of the people of Wales, rather than sticking to empty rhetoric. Only through the Welsh Government's financial backing can we hope to reverse Wales's record of long NHS waiting times, poor educational outcomes and the disastrous housing crisis. Thank you.