Is that 3.5 per cent rise in the room with us now, minister?
During her budget statement on 4 December, the Scottish government’s Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government Shona Robison said:
"… not only will we keep tuition free but we will increase total investment in eigher education by 3.5 per cent".
That’s just not true. It was never true, as pretty much everyone pointed out at the same time.