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Tax Credits

Does my right hon. Friend agree that any policy must meet two tests? First, it must be ambitious enough to address real problems. Tax credits, in seeking to address the problems of child poverty and making work pay, clearly pass that test. Secondly, when implementing policy, Ministers must acknowledge problems and devise strategies to deal with them. Given the way in which she has dealt with the statement and the questions put to her, my right hon. Friend has passed that test with flying colours.