But the 10-year-old practice has now entered voluntary liquidation, and its six remaining staff, who survived a round of redundancies in March, have lost their jobs. ‘It’s a case of regional economic factors, if not national economic factors, which have been very much not in our favour probably for the last year,’ he said. Advertisement‘We’ve had to take a hit on increased National Insurance’He added: ‘The cost of our resource – staff – has become quite challenging. We have had to take a hit on increased National Insurance. It wasn’t a huge growth spurt on the back of one job, but political factors and economic factors can sometimes take the rug from under your feet.