Question follow-through · 41262
Employers' Contributions and Unemployment Benefits
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed increase to employers National Insurance contributions on trends in the levels of unemployment benefit claims.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed increase to employers National Insurance contributions on trends in the levels of unemployment benefit claims.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
The potential impacts of the changes to employers National Insurance Contributions, have been assessed by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility. This assessment is publicly available and can be found here: Economic and fiscal outlook – March 20...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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