§ Mr. JenkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate for each constituency in Staffordshire the number of people who will benefit from the reduction in national insurance scheduled for April 1999; and if he will make a statement. [75658]
§ Mr. TimmsThe information is not available by Parliamentary constituency. However, throughout Great Britain, some 20 million people, 90 per cent. of all employees, will pay an average of nearly £70 a year less in National Insurance contributions as a result of the abolition of the employee entry fee in April 1999.
Source:
Autumn 1998 Labour Force Survey.