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Teachers: Pay

Volume 460: debated on Wednesday 9 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the total salary payments to people with qualified teacher status in (a) pupil referral units, (b) special needs units attached to mainstream schools, (c) classes in maintained mainstream schools and (d) maintained special schools was in each year from 1997 to 2007. (133712)

The following table shows the total expenditure on staff employed in local authority maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools and maintained special schools in England, financial years 1997-98 to 2005-06.

Expenditure for teaching staff employed in pupil referral units is not available and information for special needs units attached to mainstream schools cannot be provided separately.

Total expenditure on teaching staff1 in local authority maintained schools2 in England: 1997-98 to 2005-062,3,4,6 cash terms figures5,6 as reported by local authorities as at 25th April 2007.

£

Total expenditure by maintained schools on teaching staff (including supply teachers)1,2

Maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools

Maintained special schools

1997-98

8,990,811,000

451,502,000

1998-99

9,330,524,000

457,626,000

1999-003,4

11,314,775,000

496,800,000

2000-01

12,199,008,000

533,004,000

2001-02

13,559,180,000

573,490,000

2002-032,3

14,027,268,000

582,243,000

2003-04

15,457,315,000

638,386,000

2004-05

16,037,051,000

658,115,000

2005-065

16,767,800,000

689,393,000

1 Includes teachers employed directly by the school, including supernumerary/peripatetic teachers on short-term contracts and supply teaching staff who are covering curriculum release, long-term absence, sickness absence and training absence. Relates to all contracted full- time and part- time teachers paid within the scope of the ‘The Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order’ and includes expenditure on salaries and wages consisting of gross pay, including bonus and allowances, maternity pay and the employer's contributions to national insurance and superannuation. Also includes threshold payments and other payments relating to teacher reforms. Expenditure on supply teachers not employed directly from the school (i.e. paid via an agency or another third party) are also included. Does not include expenditure on teaching staff employed centrally by the local authority. 2 Includes all local authority maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. Figures for 2002-03 exclude expenditure by local authority maintained nursery schools as these were not collected in that year. 3 1999-2000 saw a change in data source when the data collection moved from the RO1 form collected by the ODPM to the Section 52 form from the DFES. 2002-03 saw a further break in the time series following the introduction of consistent financial reporting (CFR) to schools and the associated restructuring of the outturn tables. The change in sources is shown by the blank row. 4 1999-00 figures reflect to return of grant maintained schools to local authority maintenance. 5 2005-06 data remain provisional and subject to change by the local authority. 6 Figures are rounded to the nearest £1,000.