Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to schools of increases in employers' National Insurance contributions over the next four years.

The department is providing almost £1 billion to support schools with the increases to employer National Insurance contributions (NICs) from April 2025. The department publishes the schools’ costs technical note, which provides an annual assessment of schools’ costs and funding, including the impacts of employer NICs. The most recent publication covers the 2024/25 and 2025/26 financial years, and later financial years will be included in future publications.