Question follow-through · 43547
National Insurance Contributions: Earnings Limits
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential revenue raised by removing the 2 percent NI on earnings over the threshold and charging a flat rate of 8 percent.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an estimate of the potential revenue raised by removing the 2 percent NI on earnings over the threshold and charging a flat rate of 8 percent.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
The impact of raising the additional rate of employee National Insurance Contributions (NICs) by 6 percentage points to 8 percent has not been directly evaluated. The impact of a 1 percentage point increase in the additional rate of employee NICs has been...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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