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House of Commons

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Child Poverty Bill

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [20 October 2009].

Ms Sally Keeble

69

Clause  18,  page  10,  line  22,  leave out from ‘England’ to end of Clause.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

3

Clause  19,  page  10,  leave out lines 38 and 39.

Mr Graham Stuart

62

Clause  19,  page  11,  line  3,  at end add—

‘(i)	a Mental Health Trust.’.

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Ms Karen Buck

73

Clause  19,  page  11,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘(i)	a Regional Development Agency,

(j)	Learning and Skills Council.’.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

4

Clause  20,  page  11,  line  45,  leave out ‘each’ and insert ‘those’.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

5

Clause  20,  page  11,  line  45,  after ‘authorities’, insert ‘as the authority thinks fit’.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

6

Clause  20,  page  12,  line  5,  leave out subsection (4).

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

7

Clause  21,  page  12,  line  26,  after ‘assessment’, insert ‘including an assessment

of—

(i)	job creation, and

(ii)	family resilience’.

Steve Webb

John Barrett

55

Clause  21,  page  12,  line  26,  at end insert ‘including the number and needs of

children living with family and friends carers;’.

Ms Karen Buck

66

Clause  21,  page  12,  line  26,  at end insert ‘including the number of, and needs of,

children living with family and friends carers.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This aims to ensure that regulations setting out what local authority child poverty needs

assessment covers includes children who are being raised by family and friends carers.

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Ms Karen Buck

72

Clause  21,  page  12,  line  26,  at end insert ‘including the levels of benefit and tax

credit take up among the eligible populations’.

Steve Webb

John Barrett

57

Clause  22,  page  13,  line  14,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

John Howell

63

Clause  24,  page  14,  line  7,  leave out from ‘of’ to ‘section’ in line 8.

Steve Webb

John Barrett

32

Clause  25,  page  14,  line  21,  leave out ‘16’ and insert ‘18’.

Steve Webb

John Barrett

31

Clause  25,  page  14,  leave out lines 22 to 25.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

8

Clause  30,  page  15,  line  25,  after ‘Child’, insert ‘and Family’.

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New ClauseS

2010 poverty target

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of three months

beginning with the day on which the Act is passed, publish and lay before

Parliament a report setting out an assessment of progress made towards meeting

the 2010 target.

(2)	The 2010 target is that in the financial year beginning with 1 April 2010, fewer

than 1.7 million children live in households that fall within the relevant income

group as defined by section 2(2).’.

Benefit levels

Steve Webb

John Barrett

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘The Secretary of State shall ensure that a household wholly dependent on tax

credits or social security benefits has an income at, or above, the relative low

income target in section 2 (the relative low income target).’.

The reductions in the causes of poverty targets

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State shall make regulations setting out the causes of poverty

targets.

(2)	Such targets may include, but are not limited to:

(a)	low educational attainment and erratic school performance;

(b)	school leavers not in education, employment or training;

(c)	registrations on the Child Protection Plan;

(d)	teenage smoking and obesity;

(e)	teenage pregnancy;

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(f)	children in homes with drug and alcohol addiction;

(g)	children growing up in jobless households;

(h)	serious personal debt.’.

Minimum income standards

Mr Graham Stuart

Steve Webb

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	In the exercise of his duties, the Secretary of State shall have regard to minimum

income standards.

(2)	It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to commission research into the

minimum levels of household incomes necessary to sustain a healthy diet, other

necessities, safety and wellbeing for children (in this Act referred to as

“Minimum Income Standards”).’.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

11

Title,  line  1,  after ‘child’, insert ‘and family’.

Mr David Gauke

Andrew Selous

Mr John Baron

12

Title,  line  2,  leave out ‘child’ and insert ‘parental’.

Mr Stephen Timms

That certain written evidence already reported to the House be appended to the

proceedings of the Committee.

Order of the House [20 JULY 2009]

That the following provisions shall apply to the Child Poverty Bill:

Committal

1.	The Bill shall be committed to a Public Bill Committee.

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Proceedings in Public Bill Committee

2.	Proceedings in the Public Bill Committee shall (so far as not previously

concluded) be brought to a conclusion on Tuesday 3 November 2009.

3.	The Public Bill Committee shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on

which it meets.

Consideration and Third Reading

4.	Proceedings on consideration shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion one hour before the moment of interruption on the

day on which those proceedings are commenced.

5.	Proceedings on Third Reading shall (so far as not previously concluded) be

brought to a conclusion at the moment of interruption on that day.

6.	Standing Order No. 83B (Programming committees) shall not apply to

proceedings on consideration and Third Reading.

Other proceedings

7.	Any other proceedings on the Bill (including any proceedings on

consideration of Lords Amendments or on any further messages from the

Lords) may be programmed.

Order of the Committee [20 october 2009]

That—

(1)	the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday

20 October) meet—

(a)	at 4.00 pm on Tuesday 20 October;

(b)	at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 22 October;

(c)	at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 27 October;

(d)	at 9.00 am and 1.00 pm on Thursday 29 October;

(e)	at 10.30 am and 4.00 pm on Tuesday 3 November;

(2)	the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following

Table:

      TABLE

	Date	Time	Witness
	Tuesday 20 October	Until no later than	Department for Work and
		12.30 pm	Pensions, Department for
			Children, Schools and
			Families and Her
			Majesty’s Treasury
	Tuesday 20 October	Until no later than	Kate Green (Child
		5.30 pm	Poverty Action Group),
			Neera Sharma
			(Barnardo’s), Fergus
			Drake (Save the
			Children) and Kate Bell
			(Gingerbread)
	Tuesday 20 October	Until no later than	Catherine Fitt (National
		7.00 pm	College for Leadership of
			Schools and Children’s
			Services), Colin Green
			(Association of Directors
			of Children’s Services),
			Kevan Collins (London
			Borough of Tower
			Hamlets), Richard Kemp
			(Local Government
			Association) and Paul
			Carter (Kent County
			Council)
	Thursday 22 October	Until no later than	Charlotte Pickles (Centre
		10.25 am	for Social Justice), Edna
			Speed (Save the Family)
			and Reverend Paul
			Nicolson (Zacchaeus
			2000 Trust)
	Thursday 22 October	Until no later than	Dr Tess Ridge
		2.30 pm	(University of Bath),
			Donald Hirsch
			(Loughborough
			University), Mike
			Brewer (The Institute for
			Fiscal Studies) and Neil
			O’Brien (Policy
			Exchange);

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(3)	proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the

following order: Clauses 1 to 7; Schedule 1; Clauses 8 to 16; Schedule 2;

Clauses 17 to 30; new Clauses; new Schedules; remaining proceedings on the

Bill;

(4)	the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

conclusion at 7.00 pm on Tuesday 3 November.

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Revised 3 November 2009