§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what would be the total cost of meeting the National Union of Teachers' latest pay demand for 1986.
§ Sir Keith JosephThe National Union of Teachers is to discuss a motion on pay at a special salaries conference on January 18, calling for an increase from April 1986 of at least £1,700 for each teacher. Illustratively, and using teacher numbers in England and Wales as at January 1985, the cost of a £1,700 increase for each teacher would be £770 million, or over 17 per cent. of the 1984–85 salary bill (excluding employers' national insurance and superannuation contributions).