§ 15. Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the weekly additional cost to a married man with a non-working wife and three children earning £26,000 a year of the abolition of the national insurance upper earnings limit.
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§ Mr. ScottIf the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions were removed, a married man earning £26,000 a year would have to pay about £10 a week extra in contributions.
§ 20. Mr. NorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of the impact on a person earning £35,000 per annum, of the removal of the national insurance contributions upper earnings limit.
§ Mr. ScottIf the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions were removed, a person earning £35,000 a year would pay an extra £1,324.80 a year in contributions; that is over £25 a week.
§ Mr. Robert BanksTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received about the national insurance upper earnings limit.
§ Mr. ScottIt remains the Government's intention to retain the national insurance upper earnings limit and we have received no recent representations about it.