Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Education and Welsh Language – in the Senedd at 2:53 pm on 21 September 2022.
Well, student support rates are in fact increased each year in line with our policy, and I'll be making statements about that in the coming weeks. We already have in Wales the most progressive student support system of any part of the UK, and I'm very proud of that, and we remain committed to that, which includes, as you will know, a mix of grant and additional support. For any student looking for an indication of the level of support available, we published a statement, I think either yesterday or this morning, which sets out the range of support that is available for higher education students across grants, loans and council tax reductions and so on. We will continue to look at what more we can do to support students. We've obviously made funding available in many different ways over the course of the last year to reflect some of these pressures, but I hope to be saying a little more about student support in the coming weeks.