No, I'm not giving way.

I'd like to take this opportunity to address some of the false rhetoric being bandied about by the Conservatives today—that we voted to cut spending on the NHS. Many years ago, yes, we redistributed health funding to social care, and anyone who knows anything about health knows the absolute necessity of considering both these services together.

And I need to put them straight on something else. Our waiting lists here in Wales are coming down while they're going up in England, and the Tories know full well that we count far more conditions than they do in England. These are just some of the claims being peddled by a party with a curious relationship with the truth.

We're trying to address serious challenges in the NHS, but if our budget had kept up with the growth in the economy since 2010, it would have been £2 billion better off next year, some of which could have helped us with the NHS in Wales. I would love to have more surgical hubs, but how am I supposed to pay for them when we're given £1 million in capital this year? We can't work miracles.

This winter has been the most difficult in the history of the NHS, not just in Wales but across the whole of the UK. The system has dealt with extraordinarily high levels of emergency demand, high levels of COVID, flu, and a spike in scarlet fever cases. And yet, despite these intense pressures, our major emergency departments have been doing better on the four-hour target than those in England for four months in a row. And we've reduced the backlog of our longest waiters. We're employing more people than ever in the NHS. Every month, the NHS has 2 million contacts with the Welsh population. For a country with a population of 3 million, that's hardly performing poorly. We managed all this after a decade of Tory austerity and neglect by the UK Government, resulting in widespread industrial actions on pay and conditions. We've worked tirelessly with the health unions to find a resolution to the NHS dispute but, unlike my counterparts in England, I didn't wait until the eleventh hour to start negotiations after introducing a divisive anti-strike Bill, and neither did I have £4 billion tucked down the side of a flipping enormous sofa I could call on to help settle the strikes.