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Policy and Resources is working with colleagues in Education to try and find a way forward for the Transforming Education Programme (TEP).
The tail end of 2023 saw the most recent of several knockbacks to the long-delayed TEP, which was essentially defunded during the Budget 2024 debate.
Amendment 12 would’ve seen the TEP added to the agreed capital investment portfolio and funded through additional borrowing, while another amendment would’ve done the same but with increases to revenue generated from the corporate sector.
Deputies voted against both. It left the TEP once again in limbo, with students, parents and teachers no closer to finding out when the £111million project will be completed.
Express recently sat down with the President of P&R, Deputy Lyndon Trott, to discuss his first few weeks in post.
"We're working... with colleagues in Education, Sport and Culture [about] a potential amendment to the Government Work Plan that tries to take us further forward on the education plans, because where we left it, last time round, I think was unacceptable to just about everybody,” said Deputy Trott.
“We're trying to understand with increased clarity the chronology of spending over the course of the next few years, to see whether... there is an opportunity to provide funding within that envelope.
“That may require some additional revenue raising - but at the end of the day, I wouldn't hesitate in testing that with the States, who I sense by majority want to find a way through what I think is best described currently as a political quagmire.”
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