Thank you, Presiding Officer. Could I say I'm very pleased to hear that Plaid Cymru and the Conservative Party will be supporting the Order today? That is in line with the vast majority of the responses that the Government received in relation to its consultation. Over 80 per cent of the respondents to the consultation believe that it is the EWC that should accredit teacher training as we move forward in our initial teacher training reforms.

If I turn to the point raised by the Chair of the CLAC committee, just to reassure him that my officials did place a copy of the accreditation criteria in the Members’ library for their consideration. In addition, paragraph 1.1 of the explanatory memorandum made clear that the regulations would follow, subject to the Order we are debating today receiving the approval of the Assembly, and, as you have heard from officials, that is imminent. This approach was taken in order to ensure that we were not presuming the will of the National Assembly by pre-empting any decision to grant the council the functions of accrediting the programme of study of initial schoolteacher training. In addition, if the Assembly determined in a vote that the council should not have had the powers set out in this Order, the regulations setting out the requirements of the council to establish the accreditation of the initial schoolteacher training committee would have been superfluous. It's a question of timing, and we expect full scrutiny of the regulations that will come to pass.

At present, I have no intention of changing the way in which the EWC is currently constituted, but, as you know, Llyr, the role and responsibilities of the EWC are developing. It's a new institution and we are constantly looking to see what the future will hold. So, as things develop, there may be opportunities to look at whether the body is constituted in a way that is fully reflective of all its roles and responsibilities. To be clear, this Order would require the EWC to set up a teacher training committee underneath those, and I would expect that to have a broad range of representatives who can really add value, and to ensure that the accreditation process is robust, and I would expect a wide membership of that.

Can I assure Darren Millar that the professional standards for both teachers and school leaders will be published later on in the spring? I can assure you that they have been done in full collaboration with the teaching profession itself—not with the EWC, but actually with teachers. They're currently being trialled in some schools at the moment to receive feedback, and we're making progress in that regard. I'll give way.