Child Poverty Bill
12:00 pm
Mike Brewer: I think you would have the same level of poverty nationally but, as you say, you would change the distribution of it across the regions. We looked at this a couple of years ago, and we found what you would expect: poverty in London goes up and poverty elsewhere goes down, particular in Scotland, which ends up with the lowest level of child poverty of all the nations and regions of Great Britain, once you account for the lower costs of living there. But it should not make a difference to the national level of child poverty, because you are just taking account of the differences between the regions.