Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 31 March 2008.
No, the Government are committed to meeting the target, and the announcement in question was widely welcomed by the child poverty lobby. It means that we will be able to lift a further 1 million children out of poverty. That is an extraordinary achievement in itself, but we will continue to do everything we can to meet the 2010 target, and to eradicate poverty by 2020.