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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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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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

  1. 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.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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 ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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