Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I put my name to the amendment, but my noble friend Lady Sharp regularly supports the amendments on disability that the noble Lord, Lord Low, puts forward. I fully support her words. I add one thing: having worked for an awarding body—City and Guilds—for 20 years, I know that the awarding bodies always made efforts to take advice from disability groups, whether they were people who had expertise in deafness, blindness or whatever the other disability was. Of course, the overriding principle of the qualification was to maintain a standard that was set primarily for able-bodied people, so the addition of equality to these criteria for Ofqual would be welcome.