Member

I have benefited from the advice of Professor Kitty Stewart of the LSE, who is an expert in poverty measurement, and she agreed that a poverty depth target, probably based on the median depth of child poverty, would be helpful in the current context, although she rightly warned that the introduction of a deep poverty target should not be interpreted as meaning that it, and not the wider target, is about real poverty. Poverty may be at its most intense for those in deep poverty, but it is still very real for those closer to the poverty line. So, if the noble Lord, Lord Bird, intends to bring the amendment back on Report, will he consider adding a deep poverty target?