Question follow-through · 34565
Employers' Contributions: Small Businesses
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of lowering the National Insurance contribution threshold to £5,000 on small businesses that employ part time employees.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of lowering the National Insurance contribution threshold to £5,000 on small businesses that employ part time employees.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances.One of the toughest decisions we took was to raise the rate of employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) from 13.8% to 1...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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