{"id":49918,"date":"2014-11-07T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3138a56110b9d7291e724f63759ccd56"},"modified":"2014-11-07T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:29:00","slug":"press-release-stephen-crabb-government-getting-behind-the-35000-employers-in-wales-using-employment-allowance-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49918","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Stephen Crabb: Government getting behind the 35,000 employers in Wales using Employment Allowance scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Since the scheme was introduced in April of this year, 72% of eligible employers in Wales are making use of the opportunity; the fourth highest of the 11 UK devolved administrations and regions. Wales\u2019 take up rate of 72% was even higher than the UK national average of 68%.<\/p>\n<p>The Employment Allowance offers employers the chance to reduce their National Insurance bill for their employees by up to \u00a32,000.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This Government is getting right behind Welsh businesses and the employment allowance provides a huge incentive for them to employ more people, improve their offices and benefit from a variety of other opportunities that they might not be able to afford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Employment Allowance rewards hardworking people running small businesses by cutting their national insurance bill and enabling them to grow &#8211; all part of our long term economic plan to create jobs, get more people into work and help people working hard to provide for their families.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35,000 employers in Wales are benefitting from UK Government\u2019s Employment Allowance, official figures released today (7 November) show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}