To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information his Department collects about financial incentives paid to teachers, particularly in repect of their numbers, values and distribution on scales A to E between infant, junior and senior schools; and if he will make a statement.

The Department's database of teacher records contains information, collected on an annual basis, on the numbers of incentive allowance holders in maintained schools. The data can be disaggregated by rate of allowance, local education authority, type of school and by various other factors.