Question follow-through · 100098
Academies: Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What benchmarks her Department uses to assess whether academy trust executive pay represents value for money when trusts are making redundancies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 15 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jan 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What benchmarks her Department uses to assess whether academy trust executive pay represents value for money when trusts are making redundancies.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jan 2026
Answer published
The department’s Academy Trust Handbook is clear that executive pay must be justifiable and should reflect individual responsibility alongside local retention and recruitment needs. The Handbook is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publication...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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