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Education and Inspections Bill

All that I can say to the hon. Gentleman—I hope that this is enough—is that I am very happy to consider, with my ministerial colleagues, whether statutory force is needed. I am sympathetic to his argument, but if we decide that such force is needed, it would need full consultation, because we could not restrict it simply to teachers; we would need to think about all the people who work with children and their vulnerability to false allegations. I am not sure whether we could get that right in time to include it in the Bill. I am being completely frank with him: I very much doubt whether we could come back with an amendment on the issue in the other place, but I will work with him, other hon. Members and ministerial colleagues to find out whether there is a way to improve the situation for everyone who works with children in this country, without jeopardising the safety of children—something that is important to all of us.