10:30 am
Sarah McCarthy-Fry:It has some additional powers in the Bill. It now has the power to direct awarding bodies. It has the power to set conditions. It can direct awarding bodies to do things to set standards—a power which the previous QCA did not have. It has additional powers and it will be up to it to ensure that it uses those powers. It is no accident that the first objective we put in was its qualifications standards objective.