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Child Poverty Bill

It was. I said that, ""we are trying to amend the Bill by the addition of some targets. Measurement is clearly important, but the risk is that the measures, being purely financial, drive state intervention in a particular direction … We want a better balance of targets. We want to see targets that look to the causes of poverty, not only to the measures of poverty".—[Official Report, 19/01/10; col. GC130.]" I think that I made it quite clear then, and I make it clear today, that we accept the need for financial targets. As noble Lords know, we are discussing some amendments now where we are looking to improve some of those targets. I do not think you could represent an attempt to improve specific targets as an attempt to destroy or fundamentally change those targets. Where an amendment seeks to add a target—