Child Poverty Bill

That will not do, because the Secretary of State will have had advice from the commission, which will have had lots of information given to it. The Secretary of State could not just tear it up and say that he would not have any regard to it. That advice would cover not just the four individual targets but would address issues, one presumes, around socio-economic disadvantage. To write it off in the way the noble Lord has done is not appropriate. I accept his point that it is not as tightly and specifically defined as a clearly measurable target. However, there is a clear obligation on the Secretary of State to have a UK strategy that must do two things. In preparing that strategy, the Secretary of State must consider certain things. My noble friend had it right: the collection of requirements gives full value to the wording of the clause.