Part of 1. Questions to the Minister for Finance and Trefnydd – in the Senedd at 1:48 pm on 18 September 2019.
Thank you, Minister. The education Minister has joined us in the Chamber. Obviously, a sixth sense operating, as I was going to focus a little on some of the announcements she made yesterday in terms of education spending. School funding in particular, in Wales, as I said yesterday, has not kept pace with inflation. Between 2010-11 and 2018-19 gross budget expenditure on schools has actually seen a 2.9 per cent real-terms cut—real terms I'm talking about now, not in cash terms—and school funding per pupil has widened to £645 per pupil in 2017-18. How are you going to use the new funding allocation to address this?