A big chunk of this outlay is never recovered, so the Office for National Statistics was right to decide that unrecoverable sums should be counted as public spending.

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23535499.letters-must-press-public-funding-universities/?ref=rss

This increase looks to have been by a 70% increase in "unrecoverable advances" to $18.4 million.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4569199-dave-stock-fintech-pioneer-with-digital-banking-tailwinds?source=feed_all_articles