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Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
I am coming to the point, convener.
Will a copy of the review that the Funding Council is preparing come to us without having first been put through the filter of the Scottish ministers?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
I will follow on from Willie Rennie’s question. My understanding is that skills are key to the future of the economy of Scotland. So, for heaven’s sake, what will the impact of what we are discussing be on not just the college sector but also on Scotland’s economy?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
I certainly want to hear that detail.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
The current projections are hardly an investment, are they?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
But that is not investment—it is retrenchment.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
I want to come back in on that, because it is an important point. You said that the requirement as it stood in 2017 was £360 million. Do we have any idea what the scale of it is now?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
What is your assessment of where we are now? It sounds as though it will be a much bigger number.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
The autumn.
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
Surely, that would show us, very transparently, what we are looking at.
I will move on. You have mentioned options for finance to deliver the strategy several times. What are you thinking of specifically?
Education, Children and Young People Committee
Colleges Regionalisation Inquiry
Meeting date: 5 October 2022
Stephen Kerr
I have a quick final question.
