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Business: Recruitment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on recruitment by businesses.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 20 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 24 Mar 2025
Answer: 28 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on recruitment by businesses.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
A Tax Information and Impact Note (TIIN) was published alongside the introduction of the Bill containing the changes to employer NICs. The TIIN sets out the impact of the policy on the exchequer, the economic impacts of the policy, and the impacts on indi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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