Child Poverty Bill

This is a puzzling point. The noble Lord may be saying that things will completely change when these new targets are in place. I would argue that we have had PSA targets for yonks, and I cannot think of a passported benefit that has ever been lost. Indeed, it is the other way around. With ESA, passported benefits were very carefully protected. My worry is that benefit levels would be so low that we will get more passported benefits, rather than fewer of them. The noble Lord has not persuaded me that passported benefits are more at risk just because we have targets.