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This leads to indebtedness, causes stress, affects the quality of life of the workforce and their families. Zero-hours contracts are not fair contracts, and it’s entirely clear that we need to move towards a situation where we scrap these contracts in Wales, and you have the power within Government to do that.

According to the Assembly Research Service, up to 48,000 people say that they are employed on zero-hours contracts in Wales—who say they’re on these contracts; I’m sure that the real figure is far higher than that. In Gwynedd Council when I was a county councillor, a real effort was made to scrap these contracts and now only a handful of zero-hours contract remain within that council, and discussion is ongoing with those who are still on those contracts. The clause—clause 8 of our motion—is non-binding. It is a statement of principle, so surely you could support a statement of principle—a statement that the Government here is going to move in that direction.

It would also be a statement of faith in some of our most valued workers in society, those people who care for our most vulnerable people. This is a cohort of workers that needs our full support. They need respect. They need to be treated with dignity. Supporting the principle of scrapping zero-hours contracts in a non-binding way, as I’ve just explained, would put us on that journey of raising the status of workers in the care sector. It’s about time that happened, and you can start that process here today should you wish to do so.