Child Poverty Bill
10:41 am
David Gauke (Shadow Minister, Treasury; South West Hertfordshire, Conservative)
May I explore what would constitute a breach of the duty on the Secretary of State under clause 1? If the Bill had been in place since 1997—enshrining the 2004-05 and the 2010 targets, as the 2020 target is enshrined in the Bill—what would the Government have done differently?