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Child Poverty Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that answer. I pick up the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Rea, about the excellence of research in this country. We do have some of the best research in the world in this country in this area. The underlying concern in my amendment was that we do not try to set up competing centres of research out of this commission when we already have world-leading research, and that the function of the commission should not be as a research centre. It should be advising the Government. Without the amendment, the Bill leaves it up to the Secretary of State to control that situation and to ensure that we hold on to our genuinely independent centres of research without a competitive element from the commission, rather than build it in to the Bill, as my amendment seeks to do. I do not think that we have a shortage of research or pilots, which are a very similar thing. However, we often have a shortage of determination to drive through the findings of research or pilots into full mainstream national programmes. With those thoughts, and with thanks to the Minister for her reply, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 24 withdrawn. Amendment 25 Moved by