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Further Education: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the 2024-25 pay award does not apply to teachers in (a) sixth form and (b) further education colleges; and if she will make it her policy to apply the award to those teachers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reason the 2024-25 pay award does not apply to teachers in (a) sixth form and (b) further education colleges; and if she will make it her policy to apply the award to those teachers.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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10 Sept 2024
Answer published
Further education (FE) providers are not in scope of the School Teacher Review Body’s remit. The government neither sets nor makes recommendations about FE teacher pay, and it is instead the responsibility of individual colleges to make awards in line wit...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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