The Food Foundation argued, “we have to grab the opportunity that the bill creates to set some good targets for the direction that we need the numbers to go in, and to put the measures in place to make that happen.”vRural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee, Official Report, 26 January, col. 12 The Trussell Trust highlighted the use of child poverty targets on the face of the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 which, it argued, were helpful to focus the sector on a unified goal and to maintain momentum.viRural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee, Official Report, 26 January, col. 17
Some witnesses representing the food and production sectors were sceptical of relying on numerical targets, however, instead preferring the use of outcomes or measures as a means of supporting the bill’s aims.