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Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the cost will be to public funds in 2003–04 of the rise in national insurance contributions on the salary bill of his Department. [107911]
Hilary Benn
It is estimated that the changes to employers' national insurance contributions announced in last year's Budget will increase pay costs on average by 0.7 per cent. this year.