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Child Poverty Bill

The noble Lord has asked some very pertinent questions of the Minister but perhaps I may ask one of him. Does he feel that proposed new paragraphs (c) and (d) in his amendment, which refer to, ""a lack of education and skills"," and ""persistent unemployment"," are completely separate from financial considerations? It seems to me that they are intimately bound together, although paragraphs (a) and (b) in the amendment may not be. Some of the things that we have seen lately from him and his right honourable friend David Cameron suggest that somehow economic and financial considerations are completely separate from a lack of education and skills or persistent unemployment, although it seems to me that they are intimately bound together. He has asked some very pertinent questions of the Minister; perhaps he could explain to us whether he regards those items as totally separate from the financial considerations that we are talking about.