Question follow-through · 50821
Employers' Contributions: India
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed exemption of Indian (a) based employers and (b) multi-national corporations with offices in the UK from paying National Insurance contributions
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the proposed exemption of Indian (a) based employers and (b) multi-national corporations with offices in the UK from paying National Insurance contributions
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The OBR will certify the impact of the trade deal including the Double Contributions Convention in the usual way at a fiscal event, once the deal is finalised and ratified. The agreement to negotiate a Double Contributions Convention was made in the conte...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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