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1715696

registered interest
date	02/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 12 February (HL Deb col 10) that HMRC expects processing times for A1 forms to return to normal by April, what assessment they have made of progress so far, and what steps they are taking to improve processing times.
tabling member printed	The Earl of Clancarty
uin	HL4324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>HMRC has taken steps to address the backlog of A1 applications, have achieved their recovery strategy ahead of time and they are now achieving service levels. Since September 2023 the processing times for online applications have decreased to 6 days from 15 weeks previously, and for post applications, it is now also 6 days, down from 33 weeks. The Standard Level of Service Agreement targets for both are 15 days and 40 days respectively. As of 3rd May, HMRC has reduced the number of cases on hand to approximately 2500.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 14/05/2024 10:57:19 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	3391 label Biography information for The Earl of Clancarty

1715464

registered interest
date	01/05/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 25 April (HL3770), how they intend to assess entitlement for contributory working age benefits and pensions, should they abolish national insurance contributions in line with their stated ambition.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL4295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>Cutting NICs rates does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 14/05/2024 10:56:03 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1700735

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 8 April (HL3589), whether they will now answer the question put; namely, what is their assessment of the implications for calculating entitlement to contributory working age benefits and pensions of abolishing, rather than cutting, national insurance contributions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL3770
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government already cut employee NICs by 4p, self-employed NICs by 3p and abolished the requirement to pay Class 2 for self-employed people across Autumn and Spring without increasing borrowing or cutting spending. That is the model the Government wants to follow when it is prudent to go further.</p><p> </p><p>The ambition to abolish NICs is about reducing tax and rewarding work, not about reforming the contributory benefits system. It is a long-term ambition, and the Government has been clear, this cannot be done overnight and this can only be done in a fiscally responsible way.</p><p> </p><p>Cutting NICs rates does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 25/04/2024 10:35:56 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1698285

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the remarks of Baroness Vere of Norbiton on 18 March (HL Deb col 82), what is their assessment of the implications for calculating entitlement to contributory working age benefits and pensions of abolishing national insurance contributions.
tabling member printed	Baroness Lister of Burtersett
uin	HL3589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/04/2024 answer text <p>Cutting NICs does not affect anyone’s entitlement to the State Pension or contributory benefits.</p> answering member printed Baroness Vere of Norbiton question first answered 08/04/2024 13:56:50 answering member 4580 label Biography information for Baroness Vere of Norbiton
tabling member	4234 label Biography information for Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1662616

registered interest
date	02/10/2023
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what estimates they have made, if any, of the cost savings that would result from increasing the minimum years of National Insurance contributions required for a full State Pension from 35 to 45.
tabling member printed	Baroness Altmann
uin	HL10441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2023 answer text <p>No such assessment has been made. The number of Qualifying Years required for a full State Pension strikes a balance between achieving wide coverage, maintaining the contributory principle and ensuring the overall affordability of the State Pension.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 16/10/2023 16:45:14 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4533 label Biography information for Baroness Altmann

1363797

registered interest
date	26/10/2021
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking (1) to increase the employment allowance, and (2) to reform upfront costs, such as business rates.
tabling member printed	Lord Taylor of Warwick
uin	HL3464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2021 answer text <p>The Employment Allowance (EA) reduces National Insurance contributions (NICs) bills for businesses and charities by up to £4,000 per year. This applies to those whose employer Class 1 NICs liabilities were less than £100,000 in the previous tax year.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2014, businesses and charities throughout the UK have been able to claim the EA, and over 1 million employers benefitted from this relief in the year 2020/21.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has already significantly increased the EA and does not have plans to increase it further. The Government raised the EA from £3,000 to £4,000 in April 2020, benefitting 510,000 businesses. This followed the increase from £2,000 to £3,000 in 2016, meaning the value of the EA doubled in four years.</p><p> </p><p>The Business Rates Review concluded at Autumn Budget 2021 and set out significant new measures to reduce the burden of business rates by £7 billion over the next five years.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 09/11/2021 12:34:22 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	1796 label Biography information for Lord Taylor of Warwick

868234

registered interest
date	20/03/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how much revenue they estimate would be raised if a national insurance surcharge of one per cent were applied to the employment, rental, savings, and pensions income of those below retirement age.
tabling member printed	Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court
uin	HL6506
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The revenue raised from increasing Class 1 national insurance rates on employment income by 1% may be approximated using the “Direct effects of illustrative tax changes”<sup>1</sup>.</p><p> </p><p>This shows the yield from a change in the Class 1 employee main rate by 1 percentage point and the Class 1 employee additional rate by 1 percent point in 2018-19 through to 2020-21.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>(£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2018-19</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2019-20</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2020-21</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Change Class 1 employee main rate by 1 percent point</strong></p></td><td><p>4050</p></td><td><p>4200</p></td><td><p>4300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Change Class 1 employee additional rate by 1 percent point</strong></p></td><td><p>890</p></td><td><p>910</p></td><td><p>940</p></td></tr></tbody></table><ol><li><strong>Extract of the table as published at the following address: </strong><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/direct-effects-of-illustrative-tax-changes" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/direct-effects-of-illustrative-tax-changes</a></li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p>An estimate of the impact of introducing a NICs charge for those over state pension age or a surcharge for those below state pension age on rental, savings, and pensions income is not available. National Insurance is not currently payable on these income streams and therefore a number of policy design decisions would need to be taken in order to estimate how much would be raised from introducing such a charge. answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 29/03/2018 14:45:32 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4586 label Biography information for Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court

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

439510

registered interest
date	17/12/2015
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 how many persons were paying National Insurance contributions in the most recent period for which data are available, and how many of those were citizens of the EU10 countries at the time they first registered for a National Insurance number.
tabling member printed	Lord Green of Deddington
uin	HL4695
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2016 answer text <p>In 2012-13 it is estimated that 26.8m individuals are liable to National Insurance Contributions from earned income or self-employed profits across the different classes of National Insurance.</p><br /><p>This is estimated using the latest available outturn from the Survey of Personal Income (SPI) for 2012-13. The SPI does not contain information on the nationality of individuals in the sample.</p><br /><p>Calculating the number of individuals in 2012-13 who were paying National Insurance Contributions who were citizens of the EU when they first registered for a National Insurance number is complex and cannot be done quickly.However, HM Revenue and Customs are planning to produce more data early in 2016 on this issue.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Neill of Gatley question first answered 06/01/2016 14:40:17 answering member 4536 label Biography information for Lord O'Neill of Gatley
tabling member	4346 label Biography information for Lord Green of Deddington

170959

registered interest
date	17/12/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	National Insurance Contributions
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many additional part-time workers, by gender, currently earning between £3,000 a year and the current lower earnings limit they estimate would, by virtue of their earnings, fall within the National Insurance system should the lower earnings limit be reduced to £3,000 and at what gross cost to the Exchequer; how many of those additional part-time workers, by gender, earning between £3,000 a year and the lower earnings limit would currently be credited into the National Insurance system; and what, taking into account existing crediting arrangements, would be the net cost of reducing the lower earnings limit to £3,000.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hollis of Heigham
uin	HL3866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p><strong>The information is not available.</strong></p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Deighton question first answered 06/01/2015 14:27:13 answering member 4262 label Biography information for Lord Deighton
tabling member	1845 label Biography information for Baroness Hollis of Heigham