Dr. Alan Wall:

Not being evasive, I simply do not know. As the HEA, we went out to the sector, came back with a response and made a recommendation around a blended approach to how we might do additional numbers. It is with Government after that. I cannot talk to timescale. To be honest, I am not familiar with it.

We are tick-tacking with our own department, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science around it. In our expressions of interest, we set out the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 timescale. We had to give a definitive timescale, in fairness to the institutions, because nearly any institution could do any course if it thought it had five or ten years to plan it. We had to curtail it to see how it could manage.