Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 63756

Schools: Employers' Contributions

Tabled: 30 June 2025
Answered: 8 July 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

Conservative — Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release published on 22 May 2025 entitled Teachers to benefit from pay boost, what estimate she has made of the increase in employers’ National Insurance costs for schoo

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Schools are receiving £615 million to support them with the costs of the 2025 pay awards, over and above the funding already being provided to schools in financial year 2025/26. The increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) costs were considered...
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