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Child Poverty Bill

As we have just discussed, it is not yet clear to me, nor I think to the Liberal Democrat Benches, exactly what a statutory target is in this context. Indeed, the noble Lord has committed to informing us what the case law implications of the statutory target really are. If we go to the actual figures, we have spent a lot of time discussing how random some of them are. I accept of course that one has to fix on figures in the end, but to call a random figure sacrosanct, or to argue that a figure that is necessarily subject to many random elements must be sacrosanct, would seem to stretch any policy beyond the levels of commitment. I hope that I am making myself clear.