Oral Question·Department for Education
“What estimate she has made of the potential impact of increases in employers’ National Insurance contributions on the number of redundancies in schools.”
Tabled: 10 June 2025Answered: 16 June 2025
Asked by
Bob Blackman
Conservative — Harrow East
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for School Standards (Catherine McKinnell)
I am pleased to inform the House that the Government are over a third of the way to meeting our plan for change milestone: compared to last year, we have over 2,300 more teachers in schools and over 1,000 more in training. Whether on private school tax breaks or on teacher recruitment and retention, the Conservatives’ scaremongering is not coming to fruition, but they continue to talk down our education system, to be disconnected from reality and to be wrong.