Question follow-through · 22908
Headteachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay was for headteachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary school in the maintained sector in each of the last five years.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Education and skills
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: Expenditure · 9 Jul 2025
- Private Education: Inspections · 21 Jul 2025
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average pay was for headteachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary school in the maintained sector in each of the last five years.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The following link prov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Independent Schools Inspectorate: Expenditure
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided for the (a) running of the Independent Schools Inspectorate and (b) cost of inspections undertaken by that inspectorate in each financial year since March 2015.
Private Education: Inspections
21 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department subsidises inspections of independent schools undertaken by Ofsted.