Question follow-through · 49062
Schools: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the cost of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions that will be met by (a) additional support from her Department and (b) schools i
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of the cost of the increase in employers National Insurance contributions that will be met by (a) additional support from her Department and (b) schools i
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 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.Schools have autonomy over their budgets in order to respond to the needs of their ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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