Clause 1
Welfare Reform Bill
4:00 pm
Jim Murphy (Minister of State (Work), Department for Work and Pensions; East Renfrewshire, Labour)
We are committed to abolishing all measures of child poverty till there are no kids in poverty. It does not matter which measure is used, but the one that we are using for our target is relative poverty. By all acknowledgment, that is the most ambitious measurement of child poverty, because it is a measure of relative income across the economy.