Amendment of the Law

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:44 pm on 28 April 2009.

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Photo of James Purnell James Purnell Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions 4:44, 28 April 2009

I am not even sure that the hon. Gentleman's party is committed to that target. We are committed to abolishing child poverty. Clearly, these are extraordinary times. However, we took decisions in the 2007 Budget that will take another 500,000 children out of poverty, and we have already taken 600,000 children out of poverty on top of that. If we had just continued the Conservative party's policies, 2 million more children would be in poverty. We continue to be committed to this policy, which would never have existed if the Conservatives had been in power.