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Child Poverty Bill

I thank the Minister for that response but I have to confess that it leaves me more puzzled than when I initially raised the amendment. This is a clause in UK law that will put a duty on a Secretary of State—I think we agree on that—but the Minister has not been able to provide me with any definition of what that means in a real sense. It may be the case that an individual child cannot take the Secretary of State to law but certainly a group such as Save the Children or the Child Poverty Action Group should be able to take the Government to judicial review under the clause. Having listened to the Minister’s answer, I do not understand on what grounds such a group would be able to take the Government to judicial review. He emphasised the words "as far as possible" in the clause and I am left feeling—I shall give way for extra clarification—that Clause 8(2)(b) does not mean anything at all in legal terms.