Question follow-through · 21708
Schools: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the increase to employers' National Insurance contributions will be covered in full for schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the increase to employers' National Insurance contributions will be covered in full for schools.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
The government has agreed that public sector employers will receive compensation in recognition of the increase in their National Insurance contributions (NICs). That compensation will be additional to the £2.3 billion increase to the core schools budget ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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