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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Can you share with us the information that you worked from when you made your previous set of allocations? If you do not have that information today, maybe you could write to us with it.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Are you thinking of investment through, for example, the Scottish National Investment Bank?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
That is reassuring.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Kate Forbes’s economic transformation plan, is, on the face of it, is an exciting prospect. However, both of you are saying that, if the college sector continues to be on the receiving end of cuts, including the flat cash settlement that has been projected, it will be impossible to deliver on the plan without investment, rather than disinvestment, in the college sector, which is what is happening currently.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Shona, do you agree with my use of the word “disinvestment”?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Okay. That is very clear.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
So—
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Why is it coming out in another year?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Do you have any working assumptions about what the number might look like?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
When will we see that number?