Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 54529

General Practitioners: Employers' Contributions and Minimum Wage

Tabled: 22 May 2025

Answered: 6 June 2025

Question

Katie Lam

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing (a) employer National Insurance Contributions and (b) the National Minimum Wage on GP practices in (i) Kent and (ii) Weald o

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

We have made the necessary decisions to fix the foundations of the public finances in the Autumn Budget. Resource spending for the Department will be £22.6 billion more in 2025/26 than in 2023/24, as part of the Spending Review settlement. The employers’ ...

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