Schedule 1
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [Lords]
12:30 pm
Maria Miller (Shadow Minister (Education), Education; Basingstoke, Conservative)
I am sorry, but I have broken my promise—I have one further point to raise. My point relates directly to inclusion on the barred list and the much more serious situations in which somebody has undertaken an activity that may result in their being considered for inclusion. I have a note to remind myself that there was a Department for Education and Skills note about that matter in April. It talks about reasonable doubt, which is the only place I have found that reference. Will the Minister take this opportunity to clarify whether those included on the barred list, either through automatic inclusion or following representation, will be measured by reasonable doubt? The notice dated April talked about reasonable doubt in those situations. Would that be yet another threshold that he implicitly assumes will be there?