Proceeding contribution from Robin Cook (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 22 June 2005. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Tax Credits.
Tax Credits
May I invite my right hon. Friend to restore a note of balance to these exchanges by reminding the House that the Opposition trebled child poverty and the Labour party has reduced it by a quarter, largely through the tax credits system? As she looks at ways in which she can improve the operation of the system, I invite her to reflect on the cases that I and, no doubt, others have sent her in which her special requests for attention to hardship are plainly not being fulfilled by the Inland Revenue. The system is computerised, so why can we not set a decency threshold of income below which families should not fall, whatever the requirements on overpayment, so that no family suffers hardship as a result of a system that has lifted so many out of hardship?
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- 2005-06
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- Disclosure of information Child tax credit Administration Overpayments Personal income Recipients Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration Welfare tax credits Reform Repayments Telephone services Citizens' advice bureaux
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