I thank the noble Baroness for giving way, but I point out to her that the Bill is very much not saying, "We will do all this through income transfers", it is actually saying, "We will have strategies to eradicate poverty, or pull it down to 10 per cent". As I understand it, it is absolutely not saying that the only strategy is income transfers. It is saying that the Secretary of State must have a strategy to reduce poverty, and that strategy presumably includes actions to do some of the things in this amendment.
Child Poverty Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Freud
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 19 January 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Child Poverty Bill.
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