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765620

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of his Department's policy on employment allowance on (a) employment and (b) small and medium-sized enterprises; and whether he plans to amend the employment allowance policy.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	106157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Allowance allows business and charities throughout the UK to reduce their employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) bill by up to £3,000 every year. Last year alone this meant over 1 million employers benefitted, of which 97% had fewer than 50 employees. Employers overall saved £2bn in employers NICs due to the Employment Allowance.</p><p> </p><p>The Government published research into awareness and impact of the Employment Allowance with small employers in 2015. This can be found online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445848/Research_Report_368_Awareness_and_Impact_of_the_Employment_Allowance_-_Research_with_small_employers.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/445848/Research_Report_368_Awareness_and_Impact_of_the_Employment_Allowance_-_Research_with_small_employers.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/10/2017 11:33:09 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

760629

registered interest
date	14/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many employees received national insurance relief for employment allowance in (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16 and (c) 2016-17.
tabling member constituency	Bootle
tabling member printed	Peter Dowd
uin	105169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2017 answer text <p>The Employment Allowance provides eligible employers with a reduction of up to £3,000 a year on their employer’s National Insurance contributions (NICs). This is a relief on employer’s rather than employee NICs; the allowance does not give employees national insurance relief.</p><p> </p><p>Details on the employers that benefit from the Employment Allowance can be found in HMRC’s Employment Allowance take-up publication, found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics</a>. In particular, table 6 provides a summary of Employment Allowance take-up by employer size.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 09/10/2017 13:06:35 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4397 label Biography information for Peter Dowd

758059

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of abolishing the Class 2 National Insurance category on the living standards of people earning under £6,000 a year.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	9080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text The Government has previously consulted extensively on the impacts of abolishing Class 2 NICs and responded to this consultation at Autumn Statement. This response is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-abolishing-class-2-national-insurance-and-introducing-a-contributory-benefit-test-to-class-4-national-insurance-for-the-self-employed. The Government published a tax information and impact note on this policy at Autumn Statement 2016. The figures requested are not available.<p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9081 9097 9098 question first answered 11/09/2017 16:03:25 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

758060

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people in (a) Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency, (b) Wales and (c) the UK earn under £6,000 a year and make voluntary national insurance contributions through Class 2.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	9081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text The Government has previously consulted extensively on the impacts of abolishing Class 2 NICs and responded to this consultation at Autumn Statement. This response is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-abolishing-class-2-national-insurance-and-introducing-a-contributory-benefit-test-to-class-4-national-insurance-for-the-self-employed. The Government published a tax information and impact note on this policy at Autumn Statement 2016. The figures requested are not available.<p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9080 9097 9098 question first answered 11/09/2017 16:03:25 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

758067

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of granting people earning less than £6,000 a year the same pension rights that come with Class 4 contributions after the abolition of the Class 2 bracket.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	9097
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text The Government has previously consulted extensively on the impacts of abolishing Class 2 NICs and responded to this consultation at Autumn Statement. This response is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-abolishing-class-2-national-insurance-and-introducing-a-contributory-benefit-test-to-class-4-national-insurance-for-the-self-employed. The Government published a tax information and impact note on this policy at Autumn Statement 2016. The figures requested are not available.<p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9080 9081 9098 question first answered 11/09/2017 16:03:25 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

758068

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of retaining the Class 2 category of national insurance contributions.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	9098
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text The Government has previously consulted extensively on the impacts of abolishing Class 2 NICs and responded to this consultation at Autumn Statement. This response is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-abolishing-class-2-national-insurance-and-introducing-a-contributory-benefit-test-to-class-4-national-insurance-for-the-self-employed. The Government published a tax information and impact note on this policy at Autumn Statement 2016. The figures requested are not available.<p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride grouped question UIN 9080 9081 9097 question first answered 11/09/2017 16:03:25 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

710452

registered interest
date	13/03/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost would be in the next financial year of raising the threshold at which people begin paying national insurance contributions (NICs) to £11,500; and how many employees would pay no tax or NICs in the event of that threshold being changed.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	67615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2017 answer text <p>HM Treasury does not keep this information in the form requested. However, based on HM Revenue and Customs’ ‘Direct Effects of Illustrative Tax Changes’, a published document, the approximate costs to the Exchequer in 2017-18 would be:</p><p> </p><ul><li><p>Increasing the primary NICs threshold to £11,500 would cost approximately £15bn a year;</p></li><li><p>Increasing the secondary NICs threshold to £11,500 would cost approximately £16bn a year; and</p></li><li><p>Increasing the Lower Profits Limit for Class 4 NICs to £11,500 would cost approximately £1bn a year.</p><p> </p><p>The total annual cost to the Exchequer of increasing all three thresholds to £11,500 would on this basis be approximately £32bn. These are approximate estimates, and in any case do not take into account the secondary effects of behavioural changes after an increase to the threshold.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury has not made an assessment of how many employees would pay no tax or NICs as a result of this.</p></li></ul> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 16/03/2017 16:33:41 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

657805

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of national insurance contributions have been allocated to (a) pensions and (b) the NHS in each of the last 20 years.
tabling member constituency	Tooting
tabling member printed	Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
uin	57341
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>The proportion of National Insurance contributions (NICs) allocated to the National Health Service (NHS) is set down in legislation in the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (sections 161-162) and the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.</p><p> </p><p>Total National Insurance contributions have been reported annually on an accruals accounting basis since 2004-05, before that on a cash basis, in the Inland Revenue and then the HM Revenue and Customs Annual Report and Accounts which are laid before Parliament. Accounts for the last twenty years are available from the House of Commons Library and are also available online from 2012-13 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrcs-annual-report-and-accounts</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The amounts of NICs paid out in state pensions and paid over to the NHS are reported annually on a cash basis in the National Insurance Fund Accounts which are laid before Parliament. Accounts for the last twenty years are available from the House of Commons Library and are also available online from 2007-8 at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-insurance-fund-accounts" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-insurance-fund-accounts</a></p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 20/12/2016 14:12:30 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4573 label Biography information for Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

627549

registered interest
date	02/11/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have made an estimate of the revenue that would be raised by (1) a one percentage point rise in the rate of national insurance, and (2) the imposition of national insurance contributions of one per cent on employees who have reached State Pension age; and if so, how much those estimated revenues would be.
tabling member printed	Lord Lipsey
uin	HL2925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/11/2016 answer text <p>The estimated impact of increasing the rate of employees National Insurance Contributions (NICs) can be found in HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) 2016 publication <em>the Direct effects of illustrative tax changes, </em>which can be found on the gov.uk website. The 2018-19 figures are given in the table below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Direct effects of illustrative changes (£m) </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>National Insurance Contributions Rates </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 1 employee main rate by 1 percent point</p></td><td><p>4,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 1 employee additional rate by 1 percent point</p></td><td><p>920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 1 employer rate by 1 percentage point</p></td><td><p>5,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 2 rate by £1 per week</p></td><td><p>160</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 4 main rate by 1 percentage point</p></td><td><p>340</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change Class 4 additional rate by 1 percentage point</p></td><td><p>210</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>HMRC currently estimates that the direct effect of imposing NICs charged at 1% on those over State Pension age would raise around £100m in employee NIC receipts in 2018-19. This is comparable to the table above.</p><p> </p><p>The estimate is based on the latest Survey of Personal Incomes (2013-14), which has been projected in line with Budget 2016 economic assumptions from the Office of Budget Responsibility.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Young of Cookham question first answered 10/11/2016 12:49:45 answering member 57 label Biography information for Lord Young of Cookham
tabling member	2492 label Biography information for Lord Lipsey

447176

registered interest
date	25/01/2016
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the (a) potential merits and (b) cost to the public purse of extending the class 1 secondary national insurance contributions exemption for employees aged under 21 to include employees aged under 25.
tabling member constituency	Burton
tabling member printed	Andrew Griffiths
uin	23846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2016 answer text <p>The Government is determined to support young people into work. The existing Employer NICs relief for under 21 year olds recognises that the problem of youth unemployment is most acute for those at the youngest end of the scale. The Employer NICs relief for apprentices under 25 (to be introduced this April) focuses resources on those seeking to gain skills and experience through an apprenticeship to improve their employment prospects.</p><br /><p>HM Revenue and Customs does not routinely estimate the cost of extending tax or NICs reliefs, so an accurate assessment of the cost of extending the Employer NICs relief to all under 25s is not available. However, the Government keeps all taxes and tax reliefs under review as a matter of course. Any decision on extending these existing NICs reliefs would depend on whether this would offer value for money in helping young people find and stay in work.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 28/01/2016 11:38:19 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3936 label Biography information for Andrew Griffiths