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Question follow-through · 29232

NHS: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) the minimum wage and (b) employer's National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on NHS wage costs.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
13 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the potential impact of changes to (a) the minimum wage and (b) employer's National Insurance contributions at the Autumn Budget 2024 on NHS wage costs.

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at Autumn Budget 2024, which enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.The Emp...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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