Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education — Postponed from 8 November – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 15 November 2017.
Many people, Cabinet Secretary, will find your conversion into an apologist for previous Welsh Government failures to be utterly startling. You blame the UK Government for spending pressures and yet you know full well that the situation is that for every £1 spent on the education system in England, Wales receives £1.20. There can be no excuses for the fact that Welsh pupils are disadvantaged by the funding settlement that your Government—this coalition Government here in Wales—is putting into place. So, given that you won't commit to closing this gap, how on earth do you expect schools across Wales to deliver on your national mission for education, if you won't fund them properly?