Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 22 March 2017.
The Minister describes this as a technical change, and that was also what the Cabinet Secretary for finance said to me in a letter on 15 March, that it was a technical adjustment within the portfolio. Could the Minister therefore explain why Kirsty Williams told the Children, Young People and Education Committee on 17 October the tuition fee grant will be in excess of original estimates of £257.6m for 2016-17. We will therefore action the transfer of £21.1m from HEFCW to Welsh Government in the 2nd supplementary budget partly to cover the additional expenditure.’