Question follow-through · 18353

Dental Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the rate of employers' National Insurance contributions on dental practices which provide NHS dentistry.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 6 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 10 Dec 2024
Answer: 13 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the proposed increase in the rate of employers' National Insurance contributions on dental practices which provide NHS dentistry.
10 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Dec 2024
Answer published
The employer National Insurance rise will be implemented April 2025, and the Department will set out further details on the allocation of funding for next year in due course.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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