Can I agree with the Member wholeheartedly on perhaps it’s not young people who we needed to have given better information to in the run-up to the referendum result? And, in expressing my sadness and disappointment with that result, it is those young people who will actually be affected by this decision more than anybody else in our nature. And it has been a source of great dismay to me, at this early stage, to continue to see MAs come to me as Minister that are dependent on the funding that we receive from the European Union—everything from projects to support the development of coding skills in our schools, through to free school milk. And I hope that those who advocated a ‘leave’ vote will ensure that none of those schemes that are funded by European money in my department will have to be lost because they cannot keep their promise. And I expect not a penny less for the education of Welsh children arising out of EU funds from those people who made those promises.

I am absolutely committed to pursuing the recommendations of the Donaldson review. The current curriculum is rooted in the 1988 national curriculum and, let’s face it, it was written before the fall of the Berlin Wall, before mobile phones and before the worldwide web, and it actually talks about floppy disks, in what it expects teachers to teach our children. We have to move on, and I am completely committed to pursuing the recommendations by Donaldson. Our pioneer schools are working very hard on it; we’re making good progress, for instance, on the digital competency frameworks, which will be available from this September. I know that the issue around religious education has caused some concerns, and, at this point, I have no plans to change the decision that was made by the previous Minister with that regard—no plans.