Written Question·Treasury·UIN 32824

Employers' Contributions: Parish and Town Councils

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 28 February 2025

Question

Ben Maguire

Liberal DemocratNorth Cornwall

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of exempting (a) parish councils and (b) town councils from the planned rise in employer National Insurance contributions.

Answer

James Murray
The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services.One of the toughest decisions the Government took was to raise employer National Insurance contributio...

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