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I endeavoured to emphasise that we face not only constrained resources in the future as a consequence of the recession, but the build-up of commitments that have not yet been fully funded.
As the member will accept, college funding is increasing in real terms and, in our attempt to address the recession, we targeted additional funding over and above that increase at colleges in areas that were particularly badly hit by the recession.
Indeed, youth unemployment pre-recession in Scotland was at 13.2 per cent, so our ambitions must be far greater than returning to pre-recession levels of economic performance and youth unemployment in particular.
I am not sure that I will get the exact date right, but it was something like 22 May when you gave your advice—or perhaps that was when we were expecting the budgets.