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Could you undertake that analysis? It feels like it would be useful for the committee to understand some of the demographics of that increase.

On that basis, you said earlier that the assessment was based on a balance of exams and coursework. Can you explain the variability of evidence that you have said has caused some of the concern around the alternative evidence approach?

My colleague Ross Greer has covered the topic in some detail. I just want to check something. I think that you said that three in 10 appeals are successful through the alternative evidence approach and that that is higher than the number of appeals that are successful through the script approach. Is that what you said?

Can you explain the rise in entries to work courses and for the national progression award?

We do. That is a really good example, so thank you for sharing it. We are seeing that those particular awards are helpful. That diversification is important, not only because the OECD picked it out but because we understand that that is what young people want. It is also important for us to know who is going forward and being presented for those awards, as opposed to those who are being presented elsewhere, to check whether there are any patterns that may need to be looked at further.

I want to move on to the sensitive approach, as you described it, that was taken this year. Can you tell us the impact of that sensitive approach and how you know what it has been?

Okay.

Okay.

How do you know which parts of the sensitive approach helped and which were unhelpful? How do you know that they are not needed into the following year?

Do we know anything about the demographics of the people who are going forward in those circumstances?