To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will tabulate the salary increases of teachers from 1979; and if he will relate these to the annual rate of inflation for the same period.
Increases in teachers' average salaries since 1979 are as follows. These take account of incremental drift and the full-year effect of increases in the number and value of incentive allowances. The Government propose to implement the recommendations of the school teachers review body for teachers' pay in 1992–93. This would increase the pay bill by 7·8 per cent. in that year.
| Teachers' average salaries1(cash)£ | Percentage increase since 1979(real terms)2 | |
| 3April | ||
| 1979 | 5,380 | — |
| 1980 | 7,380 | 12·7 |
| 1981 | 8,030 | 9·4 |
| 1982 | 8,620 | 7·3 |
| 1983 | 9,120 | 9·2 |
| 1984 | 9,650 | 9·9 |
| 1985 | 10,390 | 10·6 |
| 1986 | 11,220 | 15·9 |
| 1987 | 13,100 | 29·9 |
| 1988 | 13,670 | 30·4 |
| 1989 | 14,730 | 30·1 |
| 1990 | 16,030 | 29·3 |
| 1991 | 17,640 | 33·8 |
| 41991 | 18,320 | 36·2 |
| 1 Average salaries for all teachers (including heads and deputies) in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England and Wales. | ||
| 2 Real terms percentage changes calculated on the basis of movements in the all items retail prices index. | ||
| 3 Average salary at highest value in calendar year, except for 1991 where the effect of staging the settlement is shown separately for April and December. | ||
| 4 December 1991, when the second stage of the 1991–92 pay settlement was implemented. | ||
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers, and at what grades, he expects to earn more than £20,280 during the next financial year following the recent pay review body report.
We estimate that approximately 182,000 teachers, some 47 per cent., will earn more than £20,280 per annum when the pay rises recommended by the school teachers review body take effect. Of these, some 28,000 will be head teachers, 31,000 deputy head teachers, 119,000 classroom teachers paid on the standard scale holding an incentive allowance, and the remaining 4,000 teachers paid on the standard scale with the addition of both the inner London allowance and the inner London discretionary supplement.