Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to item 26 on page 118 of the Autumn Budget 2024, HC 295, how she defines public sector organisations.

For the purposes of defining support for Employer NICs costs, the Government has used the Office for National Statistics (ONS) classification of the public sector boundary. This is the usual approach for classification of the public sector boundary, for example in relation to public sector spending, public sector borrowing and public sector debt.