The Minister will be aware that the legacy of Gordon Brown’s failed economic policy and mismanagement of public finances is one that our country is still trying to get to grips with. And notwithstanding the pressures on public finances, the reality is that the cuts that you have made in the further education sector in Wales are larger than the cuts that have been imposed on the Welsh block grant. So, it’s choices in Wales that your Government has made that have led to the financial blows that have been faced by further education colleges.

Now, there is going to be some additional resource made available to the Welsh Government—some savings as a result of the reforms to higher education support for students. That will give a dividend to the Welsh Government that it can reinvest elsewhere. I wonder, Minister, whether you will be able to tell us whether the further education colleges across Wales will receive some of the investment that will accrue to the Welsh Government as a result of those savings and whether you will be able to restore the commitment to three-year indicative budgets in order to aid their financial planning and whether some of that resource will be put into developing Welsh-medium education in the further education sector.