Question follow-through · 103194
Pre-school Education: Employers' Contributions
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish an assessment of the economic impact on early years providers of changes to employers national insurance.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2026 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish an assessment of the economic impact on early years providers of changes to employers national insurance.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Feb 2026
Answer published
The government position was to compensate public sector employers only for the National Insurance Contributions (NICs) increase announced in Budget 2024. For eligible early years settings, this was provided through the dedicated £25 million Early Years NI...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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