Question follow-through · 63756
Schools: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release published on 22 May 2025 entitled Teachers to benefit from pay boost, what estimate she has made of the increase in employers’ National Insurance costs for schoo
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release published on 22 May 2025 entitled Teachers to benefit from pay boost, what estimate she has made of the increase in employers’ National Insurance costs for schoo
2 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
Schools are receiving £615 million to support them with the costs of the 2025 pay awards, over and above the funding already being provided to schools in financial year 2025/26. The increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) costs were considered...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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