Question follow-through · 62862

Social Services: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the employers' National Insurance Contributions on providers of adult social care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
2 Jul 2025
Answer
3 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes to the employers' National Insurance Contributions on providers of adult social care.

  2. 2 Jul 2025

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  3. 3 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Department routinely conducts assessments of cost pressures for local authority funded adult social care, which include the costs associated with changes to employers’ National Insurance contributions.To enable local authorities to deliver key service...

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