Question follow-through · 26930
National Insurance Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to raise awareness of the opportunity for people to buy back missing National Insurance years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps the Government is taking to raise awareness of the opportunity for people to buy back missing National Insurance years.
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
Since April 2024, approximately 37,000 customers have topped up more than 68,000 years and £35 million has been paid via HMRC’s digital services. From October 2024 we have been running a significant communications campaign to raise awareness of the opport...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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