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Child Poverty Bill

My Lords, leaving aside the politics that has been going on about this issue, both noble Baronesses have put their fingers on a tremendously important point, and one that I made very early in the Bill. There is only one problem with this Bill—that it calls itself the Child Poverty Bill. The implication is that the Bill is the Government’s major tool in reducing child poverty. If they were somehow to introduce a form of words that made it clear that this is, in fact, a very good and important Bill on a particular subset of the problem of reducing child poverty and increasing child well-being, we would all have to shut up—and we could probably get through Committee stage a great deal more quickly. In the next few amendments, we are all trying to get things into the Bill that we feel should be in a child poverty Bill.