Child Benefit (Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

Before the noble Lord leaves child poverty, perhaps I can remind him of my question about the claim made in the PBR that since the 2007 Budget, some 500,000 children will be lifted out of child poverty compared with the identical claim made in the 2008 Budget. That implies that this PBR either does nothing for child poverty, which was not what was implied in the PBR, or that it is necessary to reverse some other adverse trends, which would not be surprising given that child poverty has been rising in the statistics for the two years up to 2006-07, the latest for which we have them.