Question follow-through · 35822
Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the level of teacher salaries on staff retention in (a) Cambridge and (b) other areas with high living costs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 22 Mar 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the level of teacher salaries on staff retention in (a) Cambridge and (b) other areas with high living costs.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Mar 2025
Answer published
High quality teaching is the within school factor that makes the biggest difference to children’s outcomes which is why this government is determined tackle staff recruitment and retention challenges, making work pay and support teachers to stay in the pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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