Child Poverty Bill

My Lords, I am moving Amendment 30 in order to give us the opportunity to highlight the importance of enterprise in empowering people to return to work and the role that the Government can play in encouraging and supporting those seeking to return to work. This recession has sent thousands into unemployment, putting children in those affected households at risk of being brought into poverty and deprivation as one or more of their parents is unable to find work. There is general agreement about work being at the heart of any permanent route out of poverty, which the Government’s IFS report noted. It said, quite categorically, that—