Education and Skills Bill

A number of noble Lords have raised this point. It is a point of real concern. The rehabilitation period for a fine imposed by a criminal court on anyone under the age of 18 is two and a half years, at the end of which that record is spent and does not have to be disclosed. Those who are more than two and a half years on will not have to disclose it and will therefore not have the record, which I think is what concerns the noble Baroness.