Child Poverty Bill

Surely the Minister would agree that, if you have four things that are obligatory and something else that is merely quite a good idea, that last thing will not get the same amount of attention. Having heard what the noble Lord, Lord Freud, has said about the personalised approach—the Minister and I sat in this Room for hours arguing about that on the Welfare Bill and I greatly supported what he did on that Bill—I think that there is a serious case for getting something into this Bill that will have that effect.