Question follow-through · 85887
General Practitioners: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of General Practice partners who do not pay employers’ National Insurance contributions due to the partnership funding model.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the number of General Practice partners who do not pay employers’ National Insurance contributions due to the partnership funding model.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
Partners are treated as self-employed for tax purposes and therefore no Employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are due on their income.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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