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1663870

registered interest
date	13/10/2023
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, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of offering higher starting salaries to people entering the teaching profession with wider professional experience relevant to the subjects they teach.
tabling member constituency	Ealing Central and Acton
tabling member printed	Dr Rupa Huq
uin	201723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2023 answer text <p>The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document (STPCD) sets out the four pay ranges for teachers in maintained schools in England. A teacher must be paid a salary within the minimum and maximum of the pay range as set out within the STPCD as the relevant body determines. A link to more information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-pay-and-conditions" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-pay-and-conditions</a>.</p><p>In the recent pay award, teachers and leaders in maintained schools received a pay award of 6.5%, the highest pay award for teachers in over thirty years. The Government also delivered its manifesto commitment of a minimum £30,000 starting salary for teachers in all regions of the country, with a pay award of up to 7.1% for new teachers outside London. The Department is committed to ensuring that teaching is a financially competitive career option within the graduate labour market.</p><p>The Department wants to ensure there are excellent teachers where they are needed most. The Department has announced a £196 million initial teacher training (ITT) financial incentives package for the 2024/25 ITT recruitment cycle, a £15 million increase on the last cycle. This includes increased bursaries worth up to £28,000 tax free and scholarships worth up to £30,000 tax free, to encourage talented trainees to key subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing. The Department is also providing a Levelling Up Premium worth up to £3,000 tax free for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing teachers in the first five years of their careers who choose to work in disadvantaged schools. For 2024/25 and 2025/26, the Department will be investing £100 million each year to double the rates of the Levelling Up Premium to up to £6,000 tax free.</p><p>The Department continues to consider longer term pay priorities to attract and retain the best graduates whilst also delivering value for money on taxpayers’ investment in schools. The next remit to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) is due to be published shortly, which will include the strategic areas that the Department will consult the STRB on and look to implement in the next academic year.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 20/10/2023 13:26:22 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4511 label Biography information for Dr Rupa Huq

1654003

registered interest
date	18/07/2023
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, which underspends in her Department's budget will be used to fund the school teacher pay award.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	194838
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government has accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) recommendations for 2023/24 Teacher Pay Awards in full. This means that teachers and head teachers in maintained schools will receive an increase of at least 6.5%, the highest STRB award in three decades. The Department will be providing an additional £525 million of funding in the 2023/24 financial year, and £900 million in 2024/25, and as the unions have agreed, this means that the award is properly funded.</p><p> </p><p>Although the Department will have to make difficult decisions, all frontline services will be protected. Funding for early years, SEND, school conditions and core school and college budgets are fully protected. To help fund the pay award, the Secretary of State has secured exceptional permission from the Treasury to keep money where there have been or will be underspends, which in normal years would have to be returned to Treasury.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 26/07/2023 15:45:01 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan

1649630

registered interest
date	03/07/2023
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, if she will hold discussions with teacher and school leader unions on teachers pay.
tabling member constituency	Lichfield
tabling member printed	Michael Fabricant
uin	191997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government and the education trade unions, the ASCL, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU, took part in a period of intensive talks between 17 March and 23 March 2023, with over 200 hours of Ministers’ and officials’ time spent on these talks, after which an in principle offer was made by the Government. This offer comprised a package of pay and non-pay related measures. Unfortunately, the four trade unions rejected this fair and funded offer.</p><p>Following the unions’ rejection of the Government’s March pay offer, teacher pay for next year will go through an independent pay review process as usual. The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) makes recommendations on the pay of teachers in England and reports to the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister.</p><p>As part of the normal process, the STRB has now submitted its recommendations to the Government on teacher pay for 2023/24. The Department will be considering the recommendations and will publish its response in the usual way.</p><p>The Department will continue to engage regularly with teaching and leadership unions on policy developments as usual.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 192175 question first answered 11/07/2023 15:07:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	280 label Biography information for Michael Fabricant

1648908

registered interest
date	29/06/2023
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 meet with the National Education Union on teachers pay.
tabling member constituency	Bermondsey and Old Southwark
tabling member printed	Neil Coyle
uin	191809
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government and the teacher and head teacher unions, the National Education Union (NEU), the Association of School and College Leaders, the National Association of Head Teachers, and the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, took part in a period of intensive talks between 17 March and 23 March 2023. Following the talks, an in-principle offer was made by the Government on pay and non-pay related measures. The trade unions rejected this offer, and teacher pay for the 2023/24 academic year is now being determined through the independent pay review process. In line with this process, the School Teachers’ Review Body has submitted its recommendations to the Government and we are considering the recommendations and will publish our response in due course. The NEU announced further strikes on 5 and 7 July 2023. These strikes will only cause further disruption for pupils and parents.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/07/2023 15:34:56 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4368 label Biography information for Neil Coyle

1648566

registered interest
date	28/06/2023
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 school leaders can set budgets for the next school year without (a) the information on pay for leaders and teachers contained in the School Teachers’ Review Body report and (b) a response from Government on funding for the report’s recommendations on pay; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	191552
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>The Department understands the timing of the national pay award announcement presents budgeting challenges for schools. The Department is continuing to work across Government to ensure announcements are made as early as possible. This year, the Department has allowed trusts more time to prepare their budgets by extending the deadline to 31 August 2023 for the Budget Forecast Return (BFR) that academies are required to provide, setting out their budget plans.</p><p>Following unions’ rejection of the Government’s 4.5% offer in March 2023, the independent School Teachers’ Review Body has submitted its recommendations to government on teacher pay for the 2023/24 academic year, as part of the normal process. The Department will be considering the recommendations and will publish our response in the usual way.</p><p>Funding for both mainstream schools and high needs, including the additional funding announced at the Autumn Statement, is £3.5 billion higher in the 2023/24 financial year, compared to 2022/23. This is the highest ever level per pupil, in real terms, as measured by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The Department provides these increases to school revenue budgets so that schools can cover cost increases in the year ahead, including to teacher pay. As usual, schools should plan for how teacher pay awards could be managed within this existing funding.</p><p>The Department’s position remains that a 4% teacher pay award should be affordable, nationally, from the funding increases already promised to schools, as set out in an Education Hub post published at the time, which can be found at: <a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/" target="_blank">https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/.</a></p><p>It would be sensible for schools to consider the range of possible scenarios on pay that might materialise, and what the implications would be for their individual school.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/07/2023 16:02:37 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1646662

registered interest
date	22/06/2023
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 potential impact of energy costs on the ability of schools to fund teacher pay rises.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	190826
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/07/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all children. The Autumn Statement announced an additional investment of £2 billion in each of the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years, above the totals announced at the Spending Review 2021. Total funding for both mainstream schools and high needs schools will total £58.8 billion in 2024/25. This is the highest ever level in real terms per pupil, as measured by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.</p><p>Of the £2 billion of additional funding announced in the Autumn Statement, £400 million will be allocated to local authorities’ high needs budgets, with a new condition placed on local authorities to ensure that a fair share of that will be passed directly to special schools and alternative provision. The remaining funding will be allocated to schools through the new Mainstream Schools Additional Grant (MSAG) and through boosting the pupil premium funding rates, which are increasing by 5% in 2023/24 compared to last year.</p><p>For mainstream schools, additional funding through the MSAG is worth an average 3.4%, or £192, per pupil in 2023/24. This is being provided on top of the allocations based on the national funding formula (NFF) announced in July 2022. An average primary school with 200 pupils will receive approximately £35,000 in additional funding through the new MSAG, and an average secondary school with 900 pupils will receive approximately £200,000. This will support schools to manage costs.</p><p>In March 2023, the Department made an offer on pay, conditions and workload to the education unions, as set out here: <a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/" target="_blank">https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/</a>.</p><p>This offer set out that, taking account of the most up to date assumptions for both energy prices and support staff pay for 2023/24, the Department has calculated that a 4% teacher pay award should be affordable within existing funding. The Government’s judgement of the affordability of teacher pay increases is, as usual, based on national figures which equate to the position for an average school. This assessment considers the impact of national level changes in energy prices, inflation and support staff pay for an average school to assess the affordability of teachers pay increases for schools. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) assessed that the most recent teachers’ pay offer, if it had been accepted, would have meant school funding was still growing faster than costs.</p><p>Following unions’ rejection of the Government’s offer in March 2023, the independent School Teachers’ Review Body has submitted its recommendations to the Government on teacher pay for 2023/24, as part of the normal process. The Department will be considering the recommendations and will publish its response in the usual way.</p><p>The Government has announced that from April 2023, the Energy Bill Discount Scheme will mean eligible schools will receive a discount on high energy bills until 31 March 2024. This replaces the previous Energy Bill Relief Scheme which ran from October 2022 to 31 March 2023 and provided a price reduction, protecting schools from excessively high energy bills over the winter period.</p><p>In addition to the support for schools’ day to day running costs, as set out above, the Department allocated £500 million of additional capital funding in 2022/23 for schools, sixth form colleges, and Further Education (FE) colleges to help improve energy efficiency. This comprised £447 million for schools and sixth form colleges and £53 million for FE colleges to spend on capital improvements to buildings and facilities, prioritising works to improve energy efficiency. The Department has also published guidance for schools and colleges on steps for reducing energy use and small scale works to improve energy efficiency which can be implemented relatively quickly.</p><p>The Department recognises that every school’s circumstances are different, and where schools are in serious financial difficulty, they should contact their local authority or the Education and Skills Funding Agency.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 07/07/2023 16:23:46 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas

1641798

registered interest
date	05/06/2023
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 her Department has made of the effectiveness of the Teachers' pay grant.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	187720
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>The Department provided £1.5 billion per year to schools and Local Authorities through the Teachers’ Pension Employer Contribution Grant (TPECG) and supplementary fund to cover the cost of the increase in the employer contribution rate of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) from 16.4% to 23.6% from September 2019. The Department also provided approximately £500 million per year through the Teachers’ Pay Grant (TPG) to support schools to implement the 2018 and 2019 teachers’ pay awards.</p><p>Since 2021/22, the majority of this funding has been paid through the schools, high needs and central school services block (CSSB) National Funding Formulae (NFF), instead of as separate grants. Including this in the NFF simplified the allocation of this funding, worth almost £2 billion a year, improving the efficiency of the funding system, and providing schools and Local Authorities with greater certainty that this funding would continue to be considered part of their core funding.</p><p>In early years, the funding previously distributed through the teachers’ pay and pensions grants has been rolled into the entitlements funding for 3 and 4-year-olds from 2023/24 and distributed through the Early Years National Funding Formula and Maintained Nursery School supplementary funding.</p><p>School and academy sixth forms and 16 to 19 schools are not funded through an NFF. In the 2023/24 financial year, these institutions will continue to receive the TPECG, paid separately to core allocations. The TPG was rolled into core 16 to 19 funding from the 2022/23 academic year.</p><p>No specific evaluation of either of these grants has been commissioned or is planned, as the grants were provided as a contribution to schools’ overall funding. The aim of the grants was to provide additional funding to cover the costs of the increase in the employer contribution rate of the TPS, and the teachers’ pay awards in 2018 and 2019, before the funding could be rolled into core allocations.</p><p>More information on how the TPG grant has been calculated and rolled in can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology#paying-the-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pay-grant-methodology/teachers-pay-grant-methodology#paying-the-grant</a>. Details on the TPS are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology#how-we-calculate-allocations" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teachers-pension-employer-contribution-grant-tpecg/pension-grant-methodology#how-we-calculate-allocations</a>.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 187718 question first answered 12/06/2023 15:13:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1640143

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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 much funding her Department has made available to Solihull Council through the Teachers’ pay grant in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	186680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2023 answer text <p>This Government is committed to providing a world class education system for all children and has invested significantly in education to achieve that. The Autumn Statement 2022 announced additional funding of £2 billion in each of 2023/24 and 2024/25, over and above totals announced at the 2021 Spending Review.</p><p>The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) allocation for the 2023/24 financial year for Solihull Local Authority is £111,607,639, after recoupment and deductions.</p><p>The Teachers’ Pension Grant allocation for 2022/23 for Solihull Local Authority is £163,559. The Teachers’ Pension Grant supports schools and Local Authorities with the cost of the increase in employer contributions to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. Since 2021/22, most of this funding has been paid through the DSG, instead of as separate grants.</p><p>The Teachers’ Pay Grant and PE &amp; Sport Premium allocations for Solihull Local Authority for the last five financial years can be found in the table below:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>Teachers’ Pay Grant allocations</p></td><td><p>PE &amp; Sport Premium allocations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022/23</p></td><td><p>£57,882*</p></td><td><p>£739,158</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021/22</p></td><td><p>£58,119*</p></td><td><p>£769,090</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>£1,030,502</p></td><td><p>£855,617</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>£898,062</p></td><td><p>£952,738</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>£401,676**</p></td><td><p>£972,870</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>* The bulk of the funding for the Teachers’ Pay Grant was rolled into the DSG from 2021/22.</p><p>** September 2018 to March 2019 only.</p><p>Through the Primary PE and Sport Premium, the Department has allocated over £2 billion of ringfenced funding to primary schools to improve PE and sport since 2013. Schools can use this funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, sport and physical activity they provide.</p><p>The Department announced on 8 March 2023 over £600 million of Primary PE and Sport Premium funding across the next two academic years to support schools in providing more opportunities for pupils to be active by accessing high quality PE and school sport. This funding commitment will look to improve the quality of PE and sport provision in primary schools and will help children benefit from regular activity.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 186660 186679 186694 question first answered 08/06/2023 15:03:08 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1623261

registered interest
date	24/04/2023
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 her correspondence with teachers of 29 March 2023, if she will make an assessment of the affordability of the proposed pay award for teachers at schools that signed fixed-term energy contracts at peak prices that will expire after 31 March 2024.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Daisy Cooper
uin	182421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/04/2023 answer text <p>The Government’s recent pay offer was fully funded, nationally, as set out in the Department’s recent Education Hub post, which can be found here: <a href="https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/" target="_blank">https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/28/teacher-strikes-latest-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-teacher-pay-offer/</a>.</p><p>Following the rejection of this offer, final decisions on teachers’ pay for 2023/24 will now be made following recommendations on pay rises by the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB).</p><p>The Autumn Statement announced additional funding of £2 billion in each of the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, over and above totals announced at the 2021 Spending Review. This means funding for both mainstream schools and high needs is £3.5 billion higher in 2023/24, compared to 2022/23.</p><p>Total funding for both mainstream schools and high needs will total £58.8 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, the highest ever level in real terms per pupil. After accounting for the new pay offers in 2023, the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimate that school funding is still growing faster than school costs.</p><p>The Government provides these annual increases to school revenue budgets so that schools can cover cost increases in the year ahead, including teacher pay increases. England’s funding system, using a national formula, is designed so that schools seeing the largest pressures typically attract the largest funding increases, but it does not match each individual school’s precise costs, as schools have autonomy over their own spending. The Government’s judgement of the affordability of teacher pay increases is based on national figures, which equate to the position for an average school.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 27/04/2023 16:53:47 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4769 label Biography information for Daisy Cooper

1606315

registered interest
date	22/03/2023
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 recent assessment her Department has made of impact of performance-related pay for teachers on (a) performance and (b) educational outcomes.
tabling member constituency	Portsmouth South
tabling member printed	Stephen Morgan
uin	171517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2023 answer text <p>The Department believes that teachers should be paid on the basis of their performance rather than the number of years they have been in the profession. We believe that the best teachers should be paid more and that the most successful should be able to progress faster than was previously the case.</p><p>The reforms to teachers’ pay introduced in September 2013 gave schools the flexibility to exercise their judgement as to how they reward their staff and to more closely align pay and performance. This enables them to attract and retain those teachers who have the greatest impact on their pupils’ achievements. This also means that schools are free to determine for themselves the salary, within the relevant national pay range, that they wish to offer on appointment.</p><p>Non-maintained schools, including academies and free schools, are responsible for determining the pay and conditions of their staff themselves. Such schools are not obliged to follow the statutory arrangements set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document, although they may still choose to do so.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/04/2023 16:54:54 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4653 label Biography information for Stephen Morgan