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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I am afraid that this is an amendment where I am inspired to become involved by my noble colleague’s speech. Once again, most of the objectives would seem traditionally to have been covered by best practice. Could the Minister give us an assurance that the reasonable adjustments of the DDA would be possible without this insertion into the Bill? The idea of saying "You cannot read", and interpreting reading as looking at a piece of paper, to somebody who is blind and takes communication from a series of symbols—ie bumps—is absolutely absurd, to be perfectly honest. They are reading another way of expressing English—not from a visual impression, but from a three-dimensional one. I suggest that looking at the concerns here would be very interesting. I hope that we get a good answer to this because it suggests that the Bill is missing the best practice of years of previous legislation.