Clause 15

Part of Child Poverty Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:45 pm on 29 October 2009.

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Photo of Andrew Selous Andrew Selous Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 3:45, 29 October 2009

The Minister has said something significant and I want to make sure that I understood it correctly. He rightly said that we need to find a sustainable solution to eradicating child poverty—we are all with him on that. By that I took him to mean one that was financially sustainable and did not break the bank. Is he implying that if we are not quite there in 2018 and 2019 but a significant increase in tax credits would take us there, yet that would not be sustainable for the UK economy, it would not be the right thing to do?