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  National Insurance Contributions Bill - Clause 4 - Regional Exclusions from National Insurance Exemption for New Businesses
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to exclude Greater London, the South East Region and the Eastern Region from an exemption for new companies from class 1 National Insurance payments for a a period.
  @ MP voted no to exclude Greater London, the South East Region and the Eastern Region from an exemption for new companies from class 1 National Insurance payments for a a period.
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to exclude Greater London, the South East Region and the Eastern Region from an exemption for new companies from class 1 National Insurance payments for a a period from June 2010 to September 2013.
  
  MPs were considering the National Insurance Contributions Bill[1] The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 1, page 2, line 9, leave out paragraph (b).
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have affected Clause 4[2] of the Bill and would have removed the following subclause from the clause titled ''Holiday for new businesses'' which set out 
  
  :(b)   the principal place at which the new business is carried on when it is started is not in any of the excluded regions, and
  
  Subclause (5) stated:
  
  :âThe excluded regionsâ are Greater London, the South East Region and the Eastern Region.
  
  The national insurance holiday exempted new businesses from paying Class 1 National Insurance contributions payments for the period 22 June 2010 to 5 September 2013.
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/nationalinsurancecontributions.html Parliament's webpage on the National Insurance Contributions Bill]
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