Clause 4
Child Poverty Bill
4:00 pm
David Gauke (Shadow Minister, Treasury; South West Hertfordshire, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman again makes an interesting point. I take his point about the target being unambitious, but much though we recognise that relative poverty is important, he appears to be arguing that absolute poverty is unimportant, or is something that we should not be too worried about. Perhaps the better approach, given his argument, would be to have a more ambitious absolute poverty target as opposed to getting rid of that target altogether.