Question follow-through · 99164
Agency Workers and Staff: Pay
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average effect on take-home pay for an individual if they move from direct waged employment to contracting with a temp or staffing agency, all other things being equal.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate she has made of the average effect on take-home pay for an individual if they move from direct waged employment to contracting with a temp or staffing agency, all other things being equal.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2025
Answer published
In July 2025, in its Fiscal Risks and Sustainability assessment, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility assessed there was a low risk to the public finances of increasing self-employment. The risk was assessed to have decreased since the last as...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Educational Institutions: Business Rates
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Warehouses: Business Rates
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Further Education: Business Rates
12 Jan 2026 · To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) business rates revaluation and (b) the new multiplier bands from April 2026 on Further Education colleges.
Further Education: Business Rates
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Schools: Business Rates
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Energy: VAT
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