§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his forecast for the amount payable by employers and the self-employed in national insurance contributions in the current financial year; if he will estimate how much would be collected if the upper earnings limit were to be removed in the case of employees; what would be the cost of reducing the employers' contribution in the case of manufacturing by five percentage points; and if he will provide the figures in a way which shows in each case the numbers which have been contracted out and the amount of insurance paid, payable or remittable in their case.
§ Mr. MajorThe information is as follows:
removed, but retained for the contracted out rebate, then an extra £780 million would be payable by employees in 333W 1986–87, of which £530 million would be payable by the estimated 1.2 million contracted-out employees who earn more than the upper earnings limit.
Routine information about the yield of national insurance contributions is not available by industry for recent years.
All figures are based on the assumptions used in the report by the Government Actuary on the drafts of the Social Security Benefits Up-rating (No. 2) Order 1986 and the Social Security (Contributions, Re-rating) (No. 2) Order 1986 (Cmnd. 24).