Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the decision by HMRC to bring the Concentrix tax credits contract back in-house, said: 

“This is a great victory for those families who have been unfairly targeted by Concentrix and for Labour and the trade unions, who have mounted immense pressure on the Tory Government to bring this operation back in house.

"I am pleased to hear that Concentrix employees will not be losing their jobs as a result of their company’s and this Government’s failures and will simply be transferred to HMRC.

"However, this Government still has a lot of questions to answer about how this mess came about in the first place and why they were so slow to take action. Labour will be holding a debate in Parliament next week calling for an immediate investigation into the Government’s handling of the contract and for urgent action to compensate families who have unjustly had their tax credits stripped away.”