Question follow-through · 28450
Culture: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on the cultural sector in the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on the cultural sector in the West Midlands.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government highly values the cultural sector and its positive contribution across the country, including in the West Midlands.Due to the difficult economic inheritance from the previous government, we had to take a number of difficult decisions on tax...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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