Child Poverty Bill
10:41 am
Mr. Timms: Actually, we got very close to meeting the 2005 milestone, and it was pretty widely expected that we would. There was a good deal of surprise when the data came out and showed that we had narrowly missed it. As far as I know, no other country in the world has set about doing the job in this way, with a target to eradicate child poverty in 20 years. I agree that we need to learn lessons from what has gone well. The Bill is part of that, ensuring that we have a more demanding set of arrangements in place over the next decade, so that we can hit the 2020 target.