Oral Question·Department for Culture, Media and Sport
“What recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the planned increase in employer National Insurance contributions on creative industries.”
Tabled: 27 March 2025Answered: 3 April 2025
Asked by
Sir Desmond Swayne
Conservative — New Forest West
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism (Chris Bryant)
As the right hon. Gentleman knows, a large proportion of the creative industries are constituted as small and medium-sized enterprises, and the vast majority of those are protected from the increase in national insurance contributions. Importantly, as many of them have said to me, they fully understand the need for greater expenditure on our public services, and that has to be matched by finding the money from somewhere.