Child Poverty Bill

I simply disagree with that position. I do not see how you could possibly, in drawing up a strategy, have regard to, within that strategy, all the consequences that the allocation of resources to meet those targets would have elsewhere in government. It is the job of the Government to balance those calls on resources and the implications of the allocation of resources. It is also a requirement under the strategies to make sure that they are sustainable, so that any distortions—to use the noble Lord’s term—that might seem to be short-term fixes et cetera are outwith the concept and thrust of this Bill.