Five thousand five hundred students benefit from the £700,000 school uniform grant. That's £700,000, which is less than 1/150 of the Welsh Government's budget—half of what your Government spends on pizzas and luxury yacht wear on credit cards, but it's still too much for this Government.

The price of school uniforms was the justification given for scrapping this grant. On average, parents spend £108 on school clothing for primary school children and £126 for secondary school children. When a third of Welsh children live in poverty, benefit cuts continue to fall on the poorest and foodbank use is on the rise, I wonder whether the Cabinet Secretary would like to repeat today her original justification that uniforms are cheap enough for parents to buy—I'd be interested to see.

The Bevan Foundation has called this justification 'mealy-mouthed'. The children's commissioner was surprised and disheartened by the decision and highlighted the strangeness of the decision to withdraw financial support for school uniforms whilst launching a fund for sanitary products, which would benefit the very children that this grant helps—a very strange decision, which came to everyone's attention in the same week as the Government's flagship anti-poverty programme Communities First came to an end with no alternative programme to take its place. The Children's Society has said that this decision will negatively affect the well-being and ability of children to participate fully in school life. Following insurmountable pressure, it seems like the Government will be forced into providing some kind of financial assistance, but how much, by when and how it will work is yet to be revealed. U-turns and policy made up on the hoof will never be a successful strategy for helping the third of Welsh children who are in poverty to succeed.

Today, I want to give the Minister a chance to enlighten us and the hundreds of families who face cuts to this crucial grant. Can we have cast-iron guarantees that a replacement grant will be in place well in advance of the next school term? For that matter, will anyone miss out as a result of this decision? Exactly how much money will be allocated to a new grant, and will there be any changes to eligibility for those who can access it? What mechanism will there be for scrutinising any new grant, and what role will this Assembly play in that process?

Finally, I want to ask the Minister once again: what motivated her to cut this grant in the first place? What impact assessment did she undertake? Who was consulted? And will she reconsider her decision?