National Insurance Contributions

(asked on 14th September 2017) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

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.


Answered by
Mel Stride Portrait
Mel Stride
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
This question was answered on 9th October 2017

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.

Details on the employers that benefit from the Employment Allowance can be found in HMRC’s Employment Allowance take-up publication, found at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/employment-allowance-take-up-statistics. In particular, table 6 provides a summary of Employment Allowance take-up by employer size.

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