HC Deb 24 January 1994 vol 236 cc67-8W
Mr. Ingram

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 17 January,Official Report, column 404, what are the additional costs, net of any reduction in employer's national insurance contribu-tions, to his departmental budget for the financial year 1994–95 of the changes in statutory sick pay provision.

Sir John Wheeler

Approximately £2 million.