Peter Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury, closing today’s Westminster Hall debate on the Performance of Concentrix in dealing with tax credit claimants, said:

“Labour has called on the National Audit Office to investigate the Concentrix contract and is continuing to push for oversight - demanding action for the thousands of families who have still not received re-payments from Concentrix. 

“Once again this Government is determined to target women. We have seen austerity cuts impacting disproportionately on women after six years of Tory failure and now the Government has been exposed contracting private companies to take away money from single and working mothers.

“What it comes down to is a lack of care; that this Government is happy to outsource important aspects of people’s lives to private corporations to make a profit.

“Labour forced a U-Turn on proposed cuts to tax credits last year and will not stand by now while the Tories attempt to make savings via the backdoor, once again, by targeting working people.”