Clause 15
Child Poverty Bill
3:45 pm
Stephen Timms (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; East Ham, Labour)
The hon. Gentleman puts a hypothetical situation to me. There will be a series of three-year strategies over the next decade and annual reports against each of them. The hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire quoted what I said on this: I do not think that when we get to the latter point of the decade what has happened will take us by surprise. As for whether clause 15 should be in the Bill, it is undoubtedly a strength of the Bill that it is here. It gives a clarity of purpose to everybody involved.