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Business: Capital Investment

Commons · Question 41632 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Vikki Slade

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of changes to employer National Insurance contributions on investment by businesses.

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 2 Apr 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 we took was to raise the rate of employer National Insurance contributi...