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Education and Skills Bill

I come back to the duty under Clause 21. The duty is to take all such steps as are reasonable to ascertain that the person has made appropriate arrangements for training or education. If a lawyer was looking for a meaning for the term ““appropriate””, he would go back to Clause 4 to see what ““appropriate”” education might mean, and that is getting quite deeply into the detail of what this education consists of. I can see why the noble Lord does not want to call it ““arrangements for education”” because as the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said, that might be basket weaving for an hour a week. But the use of ““appropriate”” is to ask for quite deep judgments to be made in much the way that the word is used in Clause 4. The noble Lord says that, in practice, this will be written much more lightly in the guidance. So it may be—it would be onerous if it was not—but, nevertheless, that is not the way in which the wording will be read.