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General Practitioners: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of GP practices that will be affected by changes to National Insurance announced at the Autumn Budget 2024.

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 24 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 28 Apr 2025
Answer: 7 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of GP practices that will be affected by changes to National Insurance announced at the Autumn Budget 2024.
28 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
We have made necessary decisions to fix the foundations of the public finances in the Autumn Budget. Resource spending for the Department will be £22.6 billion more in 2025/26 than in 2023/24, as part of the Spending Review settlement. The employers’ Nati...

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