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Child Poverty Bill

I am most grateful to the Minister. The point I am making is slightly different. By having an absolute list, you are unnecessarily imposing a bureaucratic process. If these are the right partner authorities, local authorities will use them. By allowing them freedom, all you stop is a recording of the fact that these relationships have been built. In a very small way, that is the direction in which we would want to put the economy and is the point of this amendment. I accept that this is not the most important amendment in the word, but it gives local authorities the sense that they are in control. The top-down enforcement of what are obviously going to be a set of relationships is entirely unnecessary and somewhat expensive. Again, I ask the Minister to consider how necessary this top-down requirement really is. With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 72 withdrawn. Amendment 73 not moved. Clause 20 agreed. Clause 21 : Local child poverty needs assessment Clause 21 : Local child poverty needs assessment Amendment 74 not moved. Clause 21 agreed. Clause 22 : Joint child poverty strategy for local area Clause 22 : Joint child poverty strategy for local area Amendment 75 not moved. Amendment 76 Moved by