Question follow-through · 54065
Teachers: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to close the pay gap between (a) school teachers and (b) college teachers to achieve equity within the higher education sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to take steps to close the pay gap between (a) school teachers and (b) college teachers to achieve equity within the higher education sector.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
Further education (FE) colleges, rather than government, are responsible for setting and negotiating pay within colleges. Colleges are not bound by the national pay and conditions framework for school teachers but are free to implement their own pay arran...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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