Child Poverty Bill

I acknowledge that, but we are talking about earning, and if minimum income standards were available today and if there were a government figure, that would demonstrate clearly that the minimum wage was not enough to reach the 60 per cent. That is a worry as well in terms of where the Government and their policy are going. This has been a good debate and I undertake to go away and think about this matter. The Government must start making it clear that the strategies will be fully supported by all the measurement methodologies available. I for one will certainly be disappointed if the commission that we are setting up does not look at minimum income standards urgently, with a view to informing some of this policy. I have not given up hope that we will somehow be able to get this insinuated somewhere into the Bill. I am grateful to colleagues and this has been a useful debate. The Committee will, I hope, return to it at a later stage. I am grateful to the Minister and beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 27 withdrawn. Amendment 28 Moved by