Child Poverty Bill

I was not arguing that. There is a difference between the absolute figures and the equivalence figures. I am just quoting a well researched figure from the Centre for Social Justice, which finds that the difference between being apart and being together is £1,336 if you are a low-income family, with all the discouragement that that has for family formation and families staying together. You can—and some people do—argue that the financial effects have no impact on behaviour. I find that suspicious. Usually financial effects on that scale—we are talking about a reasonable scale—will influence behaviour, particularly when there is this very high level of break-up in cohabiting families with low incomes.