Question follow-through · 24296
Further Education: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing financial support to specialist education colleges to help mitigate the increase in employer National Insurance contributions.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 28 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of providing financial support to specialist education colleges to help mitigate the increase in employer National Insurance contributions.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department is receiving compensation in recognition of the increase in National Insurance contributions (NICs) paid by institutions it funds, including colleges, schools and other state-funded special education needs and disabilities provision. Work i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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