Question follow-through · 902295
Small Businesses: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking through the tax system to support small businesses with increases in employer National Insurance contributions.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 21 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking through the tax system to support small businesses with increases in employer National Insurance contributions.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government has protected the smallest businesses by increasing the Employment Allowance from £5,000 to £10,500. This means that next year, 865,000 employers will pay no NICs at all. The government has also frozen the small business multiplier. Togethe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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