Question follow-through · 14763
Special Educational Needs: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) reduction to the National Insurance threshold and (b) costs for employing part-time (i) teaching assistants and (ii) school support staff on (A)
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 18 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 20 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the (a) reduction to the National Insurance threshold and (b) costs for employing part-time (i) teaching assistants and (ii) school support staff on (A)
20 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2024
Answer published
The government has agreed that the department will be compensated for the increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) paid by state-funding schools. Work is underway to determine how much the department will receive for those employers within its ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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