Written questions

Employers' Contributions: Parish and Town Councils

Commons · Question 32824 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 28 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Ben Maguire

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting (a) parish councils and (b) town councils from the planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 28 Feb 2025

The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services.One of the toughest decisions the Government took was to raise employer National Insurance contributio...