Question follow-through · 15800
Employers' Contributions: Retail Trade
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department of the potential impact of changes to employer national insurance contributions on Scotland’s retail sector.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department of the potential impact of changes to employer national insurance contributions on Scotland’s retail sector.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
A Tax Information and Impact Note that covers the employer NICs changes was published by HMRC on 13 November. The Government has protected the smallest businesses from the impact of the increase to Employer National Insurance by increasing the Employment ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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