Child Poverty Bill

The noble Lord needs to read the whole of Clause 8. Basically, it does what many other pieces of legislation do. It starts with a declaratory statement of intent—to overcome disadvantage and ensure that the targets are met—in subsection (2)(a) and (b); then it must refer to the other nations; then it must be laid before Parliament; and then it outlines the dimensions of that socio-economic disadvantage against which, if appropriate, measures should be taken. This is outlined in subsection (5)(a), (b), (c) and (d). I do not understand the noble Lord’s problem. The clause sets out the territory that the UK commission will occupy in seeking to deliver subsection (2) and describes it in subsection (5).