Question follow-through · 23229

Teachers: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average full-time salary was for (a) classroom and (b) all teachers in (i) academies, (ii) free schools, (iii) local authority maintained schools and (iv) all publicly-funded schools in 2023.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 10 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 15 Jan 2025
Answer: 15 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average full-time salary was for (a) classroom and (b) all teachers in (i) academies, (ii) free schools, (iii) local authority maintained schools and (iv) all publicly-funded schools in 2023.
15 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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15 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 attached table prov...

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Possible follow-up questions

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Teachers: Pay

21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2025 to Question 23229, on Teachers: Pay, if she will provide the same data for newly qualified teachers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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27 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what contracts (a) BFS Group Limited and (b) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited hold with (i) her Department and (ii) agencies of her Department.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Multi-academy Trusts: Pay

13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff employed by multi academy trusts were paid (a) between £150,000 and £199,999, (b) between £200,000 and £249,999 and (c) in excess of £250,000 in each of the last five years by trust.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Academies: Pay

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many staff employed by single academy trusts were paid (a) between £150,000 and £199,999, (b) between £200,000 and £249,999 and (c) in excess of £250,000 in each of the last five years by trust.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Special Educational Needs

21 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken to support the SEND-specialist Further Education sector; and what central capital grants have been provided to that sector during the last ten years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Special Educational Needs

25 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in state-funded schools were educated in special schools in each year from 2010-11.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Special Educational Needs

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 11 April to Question 40395 on Further Education: Special Educational Needs, whether any ringfenced capital grants have been made to the SEND-specialist further education sector in the

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

School Support Staff Negotiating Body: Public Appointments

22 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her timetable is for appointing a new Chair of the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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13 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her spokesperson's comments in the Birmingham Mail article entitled The reason staff at a Birmingham school decided a last resort strike, published on 7 March 2025, whether she plans to make a

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Free School Meals: West Midlands

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release entitled Over half a million more children to get free school meals, published on 4 June 2025, if she will make an estimate of how many additional children will

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children's Centres: Closures

7 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which children's centres closed in England between May 2010 and July 2024 by (a) name, (b) postcode and (c) date of closure.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

School Support Staff Negotiating Body: Research

1 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) published and (b) unpublished research her Department has considered as part of its preparation for establishing the School Support Staff Negotiating Body; and what the titles are of each piece of rese