I beg to move amendment No. 129, in clause 92, page 53, line 26, at end insert—

‘(2A) For the purpose of subsection (2) the Independent Schools Inspectorate shall inspect independent educational institutions that are—

(a) members of Independent Schools Council associations, and

(b) all other registered independent educational institutions other than schools belonging to the Focus Learning Trust.’.

The amendment would enable the Government to achieve a more unified approach than their proposal to transfer regulation monitoring of independent schools to Ofsted. Its purpose is to keep the registration and monitoring with the Department and instead to unify the inspection by having all non-Independent Schools Council schools other than those which will be inspected by the Focus Learning Trust or the other new  inspectorates that the Minister is to authorise inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. That would achieve a unified effect more swiftly than his proposals.