The Bill's drafters would not have wanted to provide any opportunity for judicial review, so they did not define poverty. The problem with that omission is that, in very many cases, poverty is a comparative term. In just the past fortnight, for example, the Child Poverty Action Group published a paper stating that 25 per cent. The type of life lived by children who are born on rubbish heaps in Dhaka or in many other places around the world is a hideous life of great danger to which no human being should be subjected. Column 191 I therefore think that, in Committee, we shall have to discuss further whether we need a definition of poverty.
Members understand only too well.
Clause 3 is the humanitarian assistance clause and is a new type of provision. We sometimes wonder why it was thought necessary to include it in the Bill. The right hon. Lady explained that in cases where emergency assistance is necessary, she would like to be relieved of the poverty focus. I appreciate that, in emergencies, the poor and the rich may be equally in need of humanitarian assistance.