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Further Education: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether teaching staff at colleges providing 16-19 education will be awarded the same pay increase as staff at (a) schools and (b) academies providing 16-19 education.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 17 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 21 Jan 2025
Answer: 30 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

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Recorded timeline

17 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether teaching staff at colleges providing 16-19 education will be awarded the same pay increase as staff at (a) schools and (b) academies providing 16-19 education.
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
This government is committed to ensuring there is a thriving further education (FE) sector, which is vital to our missions to break down the barriers to opportunity and boost economic growth.FE colleges, rather than government, are responsible for setting...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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