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date	06/02/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Freeports: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many employees currently work in each UK freeport; and how many (1) full, and (2) part, time jobs have been created in existing freeports in the UK.
tabling member printed	Baroness Adams of Craigielea
uin	HL5417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>With the majority of English Freeports now fully up-and-running, we are starting to see them attract new investment to their regions. Following the construction of new facilities and infrastructure, this investment will deliver thousands of high-quality, long-term jobs for local communities. For example, SeAH Wind Ltd are investing £400 million in the Teesside Freeport to build an offshore wind manufacturing facility that will create around 1,500 jobs.</p><p>That is just one example: English Freeports expect to create 130,000 direct and over 80,000 indirect jobs. On top of this, we recently announced two new Green Freeports in Scotland, which estimate they will create over 75,000 new, high-skilled jobs. These forecasts will be reviewed through a baselining exercise in early 2023 and performance against them tracked and reported on as part of <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fuk-freeports-programme-annual-report-2022%2Fuk-freeports-programme-annual-report-2022&amp;data=05%7C01%7CParliamentary%40levellingup.gov.uk%7Ca1b7f2766747403c8bdd08db135dfa5a%7Cbf3468109c7d43dea87224a2ef3995a8%7C0%7C0%7C638125066562222738%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=eSO64fAJlv%2FPMNd3W29fTaFbKs2ImBN9N6P0e1Byt7M%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">the UK Freeports Programme Annual Report</a> (attached). The next Annual Report is due to be published towards the end of this year.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 20/02/2023 17:33:48 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook attachment 1 file name HL5417 - UK Freeports Programme Annual Report 2022 - GOV.UK.pdf title Annual Report
tabling member	631 label Biography information for Baroness Adams of Craigielea

1584754

registered interest
date	06/02/2023
answering body	Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept id	211
answering dept short name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
answering dept sort name	Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
hansard heading	Freeports: Staff
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government how many employees at freeports in the UK are excluded from employer National Instance contributions under the Freeport Upper Secondary Threshold.
tabling member printed	Baroness Adams of Craigielea
uin	HL5418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2023 answer text <p>There is a zero rate of secondary Class 1 national Insurance contributions on the earnings of new employees who spend 60% or more of their working time within Freeport tax sites. This rate can be applied on the earnings of all new hires up to £25,000 per annum from April 2022 and for 36 months per employee.</p> answering member printed Baroness Scott of Bybrook question first answered 20/02/2023 17:35:05 answering member 4553 label Biography information for Baroness Scott of Bybrook
tabling member	631 label Biography information for Baroness Adams of Craigielea