Written questions

General Practitioners: Employers' Contributions

Commons · Question 19148 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 13 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Neil Shastri-Hurst

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increases to employers National Insurance contributions on the (a) retention and (b) recruitment of nurses in GP surgeries.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 13 Dec 2024

We have made the necessary decisions to fix the foundations of the public finances in the Autumn Budget. The employers’ National Insurance rise will be implemented in April 2025. We will set out further details on the allocation of funding for next year i...