Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure off-payroll working rules support (a) entrepreneurs and (b) small business growth.

This question was answered on 2nd April 2025
The off-payroll working rules, also known as IR35, are designed to ensure that individuals working like employees, but through their own company, pay broadly the same income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs) as those who are directly employed. They do not apply to the genuinely self-employed.

On 27 February 2025, HMRC published updated analysis on the impacts of the 2021 off-payroll working rules reform in the private and voluntary sectors. It can be found here: Update to the impacts of the 2021 off-payroll working rules reform in the private and voluntary sectors - GOV.UK