I look forward to reading Hansard tomorrow. It is ambitious, but is it the right ambition? Is it a more important ambition than child poverty? The noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, said that it is not appropriate in the Bill. Where else can we try to achieve child well-being if not in a Bill directed at trying to help children? I am not aware that we have a set of targets to try to get really good child well-being in this country consolidated in any other place.
I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Massey, for her reference to the report by the Children's Commissioners of the four nations, which I have not read, to my shame. I shall now do so and look forward to enjoying it.
I come to the point raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, and I subtract her reference to turf. The arguments laid out by the Centre for Social Justice are not about moral fibre or moral judgment. The line of argument is simple. For instance, the Child Poverty Action Group says that separation is the most important single cause of poverty—not correlation, but cause. All the experts in this Room are familiar with the figures that show that after a separation—
Child Poverty Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Freud
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 25 January 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Child Poverty Bill.
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