Welfare Reform Bill

Can the noble Lord help me on one further point on research, which is what the noble Lord’s amendment seeks? The Child Poverty Act provided a right for the Child Poverty Commission to request research of the Secretary of State—we had a debate at the time as to whether it should be funded, which I think that the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, pressed on us. The formulation at the end of the day was that the commission should have a right to request and that, if the Secretary of State did not agree or was not going to carry it out, he had to say why. I think that those provisions are disappearing. I know that the Child Poverty Commission will become the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. Does that new commission have the right to request or the ability to conduct to research around issues of poverty?