Member

This is suspiciously like the argument put by the Cameron Government to justify the targets’ abolition—so I guess it has been dusted down again in Whitehall. As I made clear in Committee, I disagree with it. Arguably, every time the Government justifiably point with pride to the big reduction in child poverty that the abolition of the two-child limit will effect, they implicitly accept the importance of reducing the numbers below that poverty line. Moreover, I am pleased that the revised amendment includes a target for a reduction in deep poverty, which will help to ensure that any target’s focus is not purely on moving children over the poverty line.