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732621

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of changes in the school funding formula on teachers' salaries.
	tabling member constituency	Bradford East
	tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
	uin	1009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>We want to ensure every school has the resources it needs to deliver a high quality education for every pupil. We will continue to work to ensure that every pupil has the opportunity to attend a good school and that all schools are fairly funded. We will reflect on the message that people sent at the election about the funding of our schools, and are considering the more than 25,000 responses we received to the National Funding Formula consultation. We will publish our response in due course.</p><p> </p><p>All schools need access to high quality teachers, throughout England. We are recruiting the teachers we need at the national level, despite the challenges caused by an improving economy and rising pupil numbers. We know, however, that some schools are facing significant challenges. We are working with key stakeholders to ensure greater support for pupils in deprived areas, which will include supporting schools to ensure teacher recruitment and retention challenges are addressed.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 1007 question first answered 03/07/2017 15:32:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

732613

	registered interest
	date	26/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to page 125 of the report, UK Poverty: Causes and Solutions, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on 6 September 2016; if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendation to pilot a teacher pay premium to incentivise high-performing teachers to move to challenging schools.
	tabling member constituency	West Ham
	tabling member printed	Lyn Brown
	uin	1078
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay and conditions in local authority maintained schools are determined on the basis of recommendations made by the independent body, the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), who consider a wide range of factors. In academies, we know that the majority also choose to mirror these national arrangements.</p><p> </p><p>The reforms to teachers’ pay introduced in September 2013 give schools the flexibility to exercise their judgement as to how they reward their staff and to more closely align pay and performance. Pay flexibilities, including the use of recruitment and retention allowances, have given schools greater freedom to develop local offers which enable them to attract and retain the good teachers they need, and reflect local circumstances.</p><p> </p><p>We know that while we are recruiting the teachers we need at the national level, despite the challenges caused by an improving economy and rising pupil numbers, some schools are facing significant challenges. We are working with key stakeholders to ensure greater support for pupils in deprived areas, which will include supporting schools to ensure teacher recruitment and retention challenges are addressed.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are continuing to allocate additional funding to schools through the pupil premium to help them improve the progress and attainment of their disadvantaged pupils. Schools have flexibility over how they use the funding to benefit those pupils for whom it is intended – and this can include putting financial incentives in place to attract and retain high-performing teachers.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/07/2017 15:37:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	1583 label Biography information for Ms Lyn Brown

433962

	registered interest
	date	03/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of classroom teachers earning £65,000 or more per year are women.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	18763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2015 answer text <p>The data provided to the Department for Education by schools in the School Workforce Census, November 2014, shows that 72 per cent of classroom teachers earning £65,000 or more were women.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 08/12/2015 17:29:33 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

458463

	registered interest
	date	08/03/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average non-management teacher salary was in (a) North East England, (b) North West England, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber, (d) the East Midlands, (e) the West Midlands, (f) the East of England, (g) Greater London, (h) South East England, (i) South West England, (j) Wales, (k) Scotland and (l) Northern Ireland in 2015.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	30364
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2016 answer text <p>The following table provides the average salary of classroom teachers in service in state funded schools in each region in England, November 2014, the latest figures available. Classroom teachers exclude head teachers, deputy and assistant head teachers and advisory teachers. November 2015 figures will be published at the end of June.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>North East</p></td><td><p>£34,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North West</p></td><td><p>£34,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and The Humber</p></td><td><p>£33,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands</p></td><td><p>£33,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands</p></td><td><p>£33,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East of England</p></td><td><p>£33,700</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>London</p></td><td><p>£37,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South East</p></td><td><p>£33,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South West</p></td><td><p>£34,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>£34,300</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: School Workforce Census.</p><p>Salaries are rounded to the nearest £100.</p><p> </p><p>Information for Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for the devolved administrations. The average pay of teachers in Wales in not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 14/03/2016 16:13:30 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

521153

	registered interest
	date	24/05/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to respond to the School Teachers' Review Body report on teachers' pay from September 2016; and when she plans to publish the draft 2016 School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document for consultation and information.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	38401
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2016 answer text <p>We are currently considering the School Teachers’ Review Body’s report, its publication and the publication of the draft School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 06/06/2016 10:58:15 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

524697

	registered interest
	date	13/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment she has made of trends in teachers' salaries and the average salary in the UK in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	40302
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2016 answer text <p>On 4 December 2015, the Department published its most recent assessment of median teachers’ pay compared to that of graduates employed in the private sector in England. The pay of graduates in the private sector has been used because teaching is a graduate job and therefore provides a better comparator than an average of pay across all jobs in the UK economy. The comparative assessment was included in the evidence that government submitted to the School Teachers Review Body (STRB). The comparative assessment can be found in figure 11 on page 45 of the publication, available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482257/STRB_government_evidence_2016_pay_award.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/482257/STRB_government_evidence_2016_pay_award.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 21/06/2016 13:05:03 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

525593

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2016 to Question 38401, whether she plans to publish her response to the School Teachers' Review Body report on teachers' pay from September 2016 and the draft 2016 School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document for consultation and information before 14 July 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Scunthorpe
	tabling member printed	Nic Dakin
	uin	40698
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>We will continue to consider carefully the report from the School Teachers’ Review Body and its recommendations. We will publish the report, together with our response and a draft revised School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document, as soon as we have completed our consideration of it.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/06/2016 15:07:29 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4056 label Biography information for Nic Dakin

679692

	registered interest
	date	27/01/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how inflation is taken into account in determining pay for teachers.
	tabling member constituency	East Ham
	tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
	uin	62112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay is based on recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). Before making their recommendations, the STRB considers evidence from all of its statutory consultees, including economic and financial data from the Government.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 01/02/2017 09:41:35 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

692714

	registered interest
	date	21/02/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to review the pay scales for teachers over the course of this Parliament.
	tabling member printed	Lord Watson of Invergowrie
	uin	HL5527
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2017 answer text <p>Teachers’ pay in England and Wales is based on recommendations from the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), the independent body that advises on teachers’ pay and conditions. The Government has asked the STRB to report by early April with its recommendations for the September 2017 pay award.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 28/02/2017 17:17:18 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	1241 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Invergowrie

515919

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2016
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Pay
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what have been the on-costs on teachers’ salaries for the last three years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Storey
	uin	HL7985
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2016 answer text <p>The on-costs on teachers’ salaries consist of employer pension contributions and employer National Insurance (NI) contributions. In 2015/16, the total on-costs for a teacher with an average salary are approximately 25.4% of their gross salary.</p><p> </p><p>Employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme are the same rate for all teachers regardless of salary and in 2015/16 they increased from 14.1% of teachers’ gross salary to 16.5%.</p><p> </p><p>The table below sets out the on-costs on teachers’ salaries for the last three years:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Employer contributions</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Teachers' Pension</p></td><td><p>14.1%</p></td><td><p>14.1%</p></td><td><p>16.5%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>National Insurance</p></td><td><p>7.9%</p></td><td><p>7.9%</p></td><td><p>8.9%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total On-Costs</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>22.0%</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>25.4%</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 09/05/2016 15:57:10 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey