I thank the noble Lord for the question. I do not have the answer to this problem. It would be very nice if we did because it is a big problem. The point of the amendment is to require the Secretary of State to worry about and have strategies to deal with the problem as he goes about setting a strategy for the next decade. It would do no more than that and is not intended to.
Child Poverty Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Freud
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 8 February 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Child Poverty Bill.
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