Hospices: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage
Commons · Question 54530 · Tabled 22 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 9 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Katie Lam
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing (a) employer National Insurance Contributions and (b) the National Minimum Wage on hospices in (i) Kent and (ii) Weald of Ke
Answer
Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 9 Jun 2025
We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, enabling the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.The employer ...