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Tax Credits

I urge and plead with the Minister to ignore the Opposition’s synthetic concern about poor people in the community. The measure has helped more individuals out of poverty in my constituency than almost anything else we have done. I underline the ombudsman’s view that it was broadly successful, but suffered from administrative and computer problems. As a member of the Select Committee on Treasury, I know that the Minister is working hard on those problems. I urge her to continue her efforts to deal with admin and IT complaints, but to leave the policy alone.