Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses in (a) Wales, (b) North Wales and (c) Aberconwy constituency are exempted from paying employer national insurance contributions.

A publication on take-up of the Employment Allowance was published on Friday 7^th November and is available on the GOV.UK website at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/employment-allowance-take-up-2014-to-2015-mid-year-estimate.

This contains mid-year estimates for 2014-15 of the number of employers benefitting from the Employment Allowance including breakdowns by region, sector, constituency and employer size.

These statistics show that take-up has been very positive with 68% of all eligible business and charities across the UK having claimed the allowance so far.