questionText: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in employer National Insurance contributions on (a) hairdressers and (b) other small to medium sized high street businesses that do not qualify for business rates relief.
answerText: The Government has taken a number of fair and necessary decisions on tax, welfare and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services and one of these decisions, taken at Autumn Budget 2024, was to increase the rate of National Insurance cont...
heading: Employers' Contributions: Small Businesses