Question follow-through · 52405
Small Businesses: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement she has had with the Federation of Small Businesses on small businesses awareness of the change in eligibility for employment allowance announced in the Autumn Budget 2024.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what engagement she has had with the Federation of Small Businesses on small businesses awareness of the change in eligibility for employment allowance announced in the Autumn Budget 2024.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
Since announcement at Autumn Budget 2024, HMRC have undertaken a wide range of stakeholder engagement and employer communications through a variety of channels in advance of the significant increase to the Employment Allowance to £10,500 and removal of th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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