03 Feb 2025

Senedd Committee highlights National Insurance impact ahead of Welsh Budget debate

The Senedd Finance Committee have highlighted major concerns about the impact of the increase in employers National Insurance Contributions ahead of the Welsh Budget debate on 4 February. The submission from ADSS Cymru said "funding for social care is fundamentally broken and that that needs to be resolved either by the Welsh Government or by the UK Government, because I don’t think we can continue in the way that we are at the moment".

The Cabinet Secretary noted that, in the case for additional funding, "social care is one of the cases that does come through very strongly in the evidence committees have heard".

You can read the Committee's report here:

Welsh Government Budget promises are ‘empty words’

Our evidence to the Senedd Finance Committee is available here:

Submission to the Senedd Finance Committee on the Draft Budget 2025-26