division_name: Child Poverty Bill &#8212; <i>Report</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.142.5/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 1 had been retabled as Amendment 1A.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.142.5/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 1A</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.142.5/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Lord Freud</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/4" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>1A:</b> Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/5" pwmotiontext="quot">"2010 poverty target</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) The Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the 2010 target year and in any event not later than <phrase class="date" code="2012-06-30">30 June 2012</phrase>, lay before Parliament a report on whether the 2010 target has been met.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) The 2010 target is that in the financial year beginning with <phrase class="date" code="2010-04-01">1 April 2010</phrase>, 1.7 million children or fewer live in qualifying households in the UK that fell within the relative low income group as defined by section 2(2).</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) The report must be based on statistics that the Statistics Board has designated under section 12 of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (assessment) as national statistics.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) Whether the target has been met in relation to the 2010 target year is to be determined by reference to the statistics.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/10" pwmotiontext="lines">(5) If the target has not been met, the report must explain why it has not been met.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.142.5/11" pwmotiontext="lines">(6) "The 2010 target year" is the financial year beginning with <phrase class="date" code="2010-04-01">1 April 2010</phrase>."</p>