Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, when my noble friend Lady Verma spoke so compellingly on the group including Amendment 230, she referred to a couple of very specific examples where our amendment might have prevented problems. The intervention of Ofqual in 2008 to force the AQA to lower the pass mark for its GCSE science paper to 20 per cent is one example. That suggests to us that it is helpful for the Secretary of State to have this backstop power.