Question follow-through · 63153

Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an estimate of the cost of hiring new teachers due to changes in employer National Insurance contributions for schools in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 26 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 30 Jun 2025
Answer: 3 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

26 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an estimate of the cost of hiring new teachers due to changes in employer National Insurance contributions for schools in (a) Fylde constituency and (b) Lancashire.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Jul 2025
Answer published
The increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) costs was taken into account when calculating the additional funding the department is providing to support schools with the 2025 pay awards in the financial year 2025/26. Schools in Lancashire will ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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