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It is well established—it has been around for many years—and although there is a lot of debate about it, it has caused no practical problem that I can detect.
Those deaths may not be an immediate symptom of child poverty but, for many, they are the end point. They are what happens when children are brought up in poverty—many of them lose their lives.
We will not be setting targets on this, because targets tend to drive behaviour in many ways. If there is an investigation and it shows that fraud has not taken place, that is a good outcome.