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Tax Credits

My hon. Friend was a distinguished member of the Treasury Committee and no doubt he hopes to serve on it again. If so, I look forward to discussing this with him in Committee. On the question of the tax credits, as I have repeatedly said, there is a fundamental choice. If we are to operate the responsive system that is widely accepted both inside and outside the House as the correct way to support families with children, we must decide how that flexibility is delivered to claimants and we must do so with certainty. I do not wish to give the impression that I am not concentrating on the errors, but I am disappointed that, while millions of families have benefited from tax credits and have good things to say about them, we never hear about that from the Opposition.