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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.
I am sorry to come back to this and I thank the noble Lord for giving way again. Under the Bill, the Secretary of State has to set up a strategy to ensure that targets are set, and he has to ensure that children do not experience socio-economic disadvantage. Presumably the group of children suffering socio-economic disadvantage can, as a group, take the Government to judicial review based on the fact that they have been left in social disadvantage. That is how I read the provision. If that is not the case, I do not understand what the Bill is doing; if it is the case, I do not understand exactly how we are going to define in legal terms what is meant by socio-economic disadvantage.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
716 c276GC 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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