HC Deb 02 July 1990 vol 175 c451W
21. Mr. Favell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

26. Mr. Robert G. Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many standard rate tax payers would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit from national insurance contributions.

29. Mr. Riddick

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many standard rate tax payers would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

46. Mr. Andy Stewart

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

Mr. Hague

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

Mr. Bowis

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many standard rate taxpayers would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

Mr. Scott

I refer my hon. Friends to the reply given earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Dorset, South (Mr. Bruce).

24. Mr. Yeo

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received regarding the level of national insurance contributions.

Mr. Scott

Representatives of the business community have recently urged us to retain the upper earnings limit for employees' national insurance contributions and to keep employers' national insurance contributions as low as possible.

Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many standard rate taxpayers would be affected by the removal of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

If the upper earnings limit for employees' National Insurance contributions were removed it is currently estimated that about 3.3 million people would pay more contributions, of whom about 2.1 million people would be standard rate tax payers. If the corresponding upper profits limit for self-employed people were also removed it is estimated that about another 500,000 people would pay more contributions, of whom about 200,000 would be standard rate tax payers.