HC Deb 04 July 1978 vol 953 cc131-2W
45. Mr. Newton

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has made any assessment of the effects on employment prospects of the proposed increase in employers' national insurance surcharge.

Mr. Healey

I provided estimates of the effects on employment prospects of the proposed increase in the national insurance surcharge to the Social Services and Employment Sub-Committee of the Expenditure Committee on 20th June. I said then that I expected that unemployment would be about 5,000 higher in the second quarter of 1979 than it would otherwise have been.