Member

Instead of the state contributing around 30% of the costs, for those pupils who then transferred into the state system, the state was then picking up 100% of the costs, wiping out—indeed, more than wiping out—the impact. It was not something that happened overnight but, over a period, that is what developed. It seems clear to me that this will have an impact on parents; it will have an impact on schools, and it will, inevitably, take a number of those schools to the wall.