Can I thank Jenny Rathbone for her questions? As I stated earlier, I believe the recommendations and the principles endorsed by the Cabinet keep faith with the Labour Party manifesto, in that the Labour Party said that the system would be more generous than in England, and if we implement this, that will be the case. With regard to people who are looking to study part-time, this is one of the most attractive features of the Diamond report—that we will be able to support properly, for the first time, those who are studying on a part-time basis. But we should not forget that for those people who are going back to education, especially in the field of FE, Welsh Government does provide resources to FE colleges—in fact, I’ve just signed off the allocations for this year—so that they can help those students with childcare, with travel costs. So, we do already have programmes in place to try and support those learners to maintain their places, especially in the FE sector.

I have not had discussions with the DWP. With regard to the Student Loans Company, my priority in my dealings with the Student Loans Company is to secure assurances from them that they can change their systems to allow us to move to this new system of student support. The report does have some quite harsh things to say about capacity within the Student Loans Company. We cannot move forward on any of this unless we know that the Student Loans Company can accommodate the new system. That’s one of the reasons why we have found ourselves in the position of not being able to offer postgraduate loans this year, because the Student Loans Company could not change their systems in time to allow us to do that. This is a real barrier to the implementation of any of these reforms. I have met with the chair and the chief executive of the Student Loans Company, and officials continue to have dialogue with the chief executive of the Student Loans Company, because that is the priority that I have at this stage—that they can flex their system to allow us to implement this change because, without that, we will not be able to do any of the things that I’ve outlined today. I need to be able to do that with confidence that we will get, and Welsh students will get, a good service.