Part of 4. Questions to the Leader of the House and Chief Whip – in the Senedd at 4:20 pm on 11 December 2018.
Yes. So, on the second one, I'm very keen on doing that. I've had several conversations with the Permanent Secretary around the civil service, and I know that the Commission has also had a couple of conversations about it in terms of becoming Disability Confident. We're very keen to do that. The difficulty with this is that you need to get a standard in place. So, you can declare that you're a Disability Confident employer, but you need to be able to demonstrate a standard, and the 'scores on the doors' thing has the same problem. So, the issue is that we have to develop the standard against which you score the properties. So, we are very interested in doing it. We're working very hard with Disability Wales and others to work out what those standards would be in order to have some system of judging yourself against them. So, I'm very keen on doing it but I don't think the standards are in place for us to be able to basically do it, so we need to just put the work in. It will be part of the consultation, and it's part of a piece of work that we need to do to make sure that everybody is happy as to what the standard against which you're scoring people is so that we can all go forward on the same—basically off a level, a level playing field. I mixed about four different analogies there, but you understood what I was saying.
So, basically, it's a great idea but we have to develop the standards against which we judge people in order to give them the score in the first place, so we're in the process of doing that. That's a simpler way of putting it. [Laughter.]