Question follow-through · 15270
Childcare: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the increases to employers national insurance contributions on the cost to parents of pre-school childcare.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 28 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the increases to employers national insurance contributions on the cost to parents of pre-school childcare.
25 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Nov 2024
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham to the answer of 11 November 2024 to Question 12804.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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