Question follow-through · 54527
Manufacturing Industries: Kent
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing employer National Insurance Contributions and the National Minimum Wage on manufacturing businesses in (a) Kent and (b) the Weal
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Business: Kent · 3 Jun 2025
- Department for Business and Trade: Paper · 1 Sept 2025
- Department for Business and Trade: Stationery · 1 Sept 2025
- Department for Business and Trade: Procurement · 1 Sept 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing employer National Insurance Contributions and the National Minimum Wage on manufacturing businesses in (a) Kent and (b) the Weal
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government protected small businesses and charities from the impact of the increase to Employer National Insurance by increasing the Employment Allowance from £5,000 to £10,500, and 865,000 employers will pay no NICs in 2025-26. My Department publishe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Business: Kent
3 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with which businesses in Kent his Department held discussions on the Employment Rights Bill prior to its introduction.
Department for Business and Trade: Paper
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, from which countries his Department has sourced (a) pulp and (b) finished paper for (i) official stationery and (ii) other printed materials.
Department for Business and Trade: Stationery
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department has taken to encourage the procurement of British-made office products and stationery by (a) his Department and (b) its arms-length bodies.
Department for Business and Trade: Procurement
1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many an what proportion of his Department’s (a) ICT (b) stationery and (c) office furniture suppliers are (i) supplied by UK businesses and (ii) manufactured in the UK.