Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their response to the gender analysis undertaken by the Women’s Budget Group of the proposed national insurance changes relating to the self-employed, published on 20 March in their report <i>Gender impact assessment of the Spring Budget 2017</i>.
As the Chancellor set out in his statement to Parliament on 15 March, the Government will no longer be proceeding with the changes announced at Spring Budget 2017 to increase Class 4 National NICs in April 2018 and April 2019.