I agree with Siân Gwenllian that we need to look at new ways of dealing with the austerity budget that the UK Government hands down to us, but I want to just focus on the particular problems that Cardiff faces as a result of the way in which the education improvement grant has been absorbed into the overall rate support grant.

Not only is our local authority having to cope with a reduction of 11 per cent in the education improvement grant, it is of great concern to me that the money that this local authority and other local authorities, like, for example, Swansea and Newport, used to get for Travellers and minority ethnic pupils has disappeared in a puff of smoke. That is of huge concern, because Cardiff is a dispersal centre for refugees, so we obviously are very pleased to accept a significant number of children who have absolutely no English when they arrive, but we obviously need to put in place the services to integrate them into our mainstream schools.

So, what was a modest 0.9 per cent increase in the education improvement grant, bearing in mind that we have an increasing population of young people in Cardiff, has turned into a small reduction in the overall education improvement grant, with the increasing numbers in the population of schoolchildren we have. That translates into a massive £4 million gap in Cardiff's education budget, and in one particular school, in Fitzalan in Mark Drakeford's constituency, £400,000 will be lost. In other schools, it's going to be 6 per cent or 7 per cent of their total school grants. So, I do hope that the Cabinet Secretary for local government will give us some assurances that this money is going to be for those local authorities that actually are educating ethnic minority children, not for local authorities where there are almost no minority ethnic and Traveller children. So, I'd be grateful for some clarification on that.