Child Poverty Bill

I was trying to get away from this debate. The quotation that the hon. Gentleman cited from Mike Brewer was—apart from the last half-sentence—about a more flowery definition of poverty, whether children are fat or not fat. What I was trying to emphasise was that we should be primarily concerned with how to create as many exits from poverty and, equally importantly, how to cut off the supply routes to poverty. The hon. Gentleman may have had a rough going over in Committee, but that is what I thought his clause was about. What are the supply routes to poverty?