Chamber and committees

Sorry—18 have deficits?

Eighteen?

You would take money back.

But you might not fully fund it?

I will throw this question out: should colleges be able to offer degrees?

Does it not come back to flexibility? You could have a really ambitious college that is doing something fantastic and thinks that it could offer a degree course but currently is not able to. It would have to offer that in conjunction with a local university. Maybe that is right or maybe it is not. I am just putting out the question to see whether any thought has been given to it.

I go back to regionalisation, in particular in Glasgow and Lanarkshire. From listening to Graeme Dey previously on the matter, I think that he has decided that the current arrangement should end. Are we just waiting for him to make a statement on what happens next?

When will Graeme Dey take a decision on the matter?

You said, “fairly soon”. Do you mean by the end of the year?

The table in appendix 1 of the Auditor General’s report, which contains the operating position and cash balances for 2022-23—I realise that that is not right now—shows that 11 colleges had got worse and only three had got better. If that table were to be produced now, what would the position be?