Treasury written question – answered at on 14 March 2022.
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will delay the planned national insurance increase due to take place in April 2022 in response to the increase in fuel costs.
The Health and Social Care Levy will establish a long-term, sustainable source of revenue to give healthcare the extra funding needed to recover from the pandemic and to implement reform to social care as soon as possible.
The increased spending takes immediate effect this year to deliver our ambitions to tackle the NHS electives backlog, which is why we cannot delay the introduction of the Levy. The Government is committed to responsible management of the public finances and it is important that this spending is fully funded, particularly in the context of record borrowing and debt, as a result of the economic response to COVID-19.
The Government has announced a package of support to help households with rising energy bills, worth £9.1 billion in 2022-23.
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