Question follow-through · 16363
Further Education: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the 5.5% pay award for teachers in academized sixth forms to non-academized colleges.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 4 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the 5.5% pay award for teachers in academized sixth forms to non-academized colleges.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Dec 2024
Answer published
Unlike 16-19 academies, sixth form colleges are part of the statutory further education (FE) sector. The department does not set or recommend pay in FE providers, which have the freedom to make their own arrangements in line with their local circumstances...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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