Question follow-through · 6210
Employers' Contributions: Lancashire
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions introduced in April 2025 on employment levels in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in Lanca
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions introduced in April 2025 on employment levels in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors in Lanca
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government has taken a number of fair and necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services. One of these decisions, taken at Autumn Budget 2024, was to increase the rate of employer National Insuran...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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