Question follow-through · 41471
Schools: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of schools whose grant offered to cover the rise in employers National Insurance contributions is not enough meet the actual cost incurred.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 27 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of schools whose grant offered to cover the rise in employers National Insurance contributions is not enough meet the actual cost incurred.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government has agreed that public sector employers will receive support in recognition of the increase in their National Insurance contributions (NICs) from April 2025. The department is providing schools and high needs settings with over £930 million...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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