We do not propose to object to this budget and we are grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for the participative approach taken with the Finance Committee, and beyond, on it.

I would like to raise just a few points around the capital allocations: the £2.5 million for the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal, which I welcomed in my question to the First Minister earlier. I just wonder whether this is still intended to have the Crindau marina proposal connecting the southern end of the canal to the Usk. I know that there have been retail development proposals around that. There was £75,000 of previous funding from the Assembly for that—is that still a live proposal that we expect to take place?

On the £5 million flood and coastal risk management schemes, and the £985,000 for the Tal-y-bont flood alleviation scheme, is the position of the Welsh Government that these are climate change projects responding to actual or prospective changes in sea level, or are they overdue investment in necessary schemes that are needed in any event? And also clarify the £500,000 for the drainage improvements on the A55; I note it is in the economy and infrastructure budget rather than environment and rural affairs. So, does that confirm it’s not actually a climate change project, as I think may have been suggested by the First Minister during the Assembly election, but instead remedial work for a poorly designed or potentially constructed-overly-cheaply road?

On the student finances, I was quite struck outside this place by how the Government’s going to slash £41.1 million from higher education. We were then told that £21.1 million of that was just a technical reclassification. I think we all welcome the £10 million that’s now been put back in, half for part-time and half for research, and the £8.2 million that we see in the increased revenue within the AME cost of the student loans. The Diamond report on the interim basis, my reading of that was there was an £11.9 million gap between what the Welsh Government was provisioning for money that was likely not to be paid back on student loan and what Diamond felt might be required. Is the £8.2 million a contribution to closing to closing that gap or separately? But, I welcome the supplementary budget and the process by which it’s been taken forward.