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Only if you follow the line of questioning that we are looking for.

That is certainly the feedback that I have had from the college in Edinburgh, which is in my region. Gareth Williams, do you want to pick up on that?

At the outset, you said that the process involves a review every year. You have spoken about a number of parameters and said that the process is fair and transparent across the centres.

Earlier this morning, we heard that institutions are looking for budget stability and certainty. If you are modelling different things year on year, that is counterintuitive from the point of view of stability. If your modelling is different every year, that is not particularly transparent for institutions. How can they have any idea of what they will be judged on or even have a concept of what funding might be coming the next year if you are continually shifting the goalposts?

We might dig into that more as this thread of the discussion goes on.

I will now bring in Pam Duncan-Glancy. I am sorry, Pam—I got a bit tongue-tied there.

I am glad to hear that. I am looking at our report from 2023 and I note that, in paragraph 384, we asked

“that the SFC do all it can to accelerate work to develop and implement its Infrastructure Investment Plan”,

given our grave concerns about

“the significant level of back log and life cycle maintenance required”

for the estate.

You said that there is £30 million, with £2 million for really urgent things. Do you have a sense of the cost of the backlog maintenance? I am sure that it will be far higher than that.

Ben Macpherson, do you want to come in here?

I am sure that Edinburgh College is loving the support that we are giving it.

Does David Belsey have anything to add?

Can we come back to Ben Macpherson now, please?

I will bring in Ruth Maguire at this point.