§ Sir Peter Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is a teacher's salary at scale one, at the new rates recently negotiated, expressed per hour and per day, of actual attendance at school.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe following table shows the salary of teachers at scale 1 (points 0, 6 and 13) at 31 March 1986, expressed per annum, per hour and per day.
The length of the school year or day is not strictly prescribed, nor is detailed information on practice collected by the Department. Maintained schools are, however, required to open for a minimum of 190 days a year. For illustrative purposes, this has been taken as the number of days worked. The length of the timetabled school week is also not prescribed. A typical primary timetable might involve 25 hours per week, excluding midday and other breaks and after-school activities. A typical secondary timetable on the same basis would be about 27 hours. For the purposes of this table an average of 26 hours per week has been taken. It must be stressed that these figures represent a minimum assumption.
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Scale 1 Teachers salaries at 31 March 1986 Rates per annum £ Rates per day [annual salary ob/ 190] £ Rates per hour [(daily salary X 5) ob/ 26] £ Minimum point 0 5,904 31.07 5.98 Point 6 (graduate new entrants) 7,305 38.45 7.39 Maximum point 13 9,285 48.87 9.40
§ Sir Peter Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table showing the level of teachers' salaries at each scale in June 1983, and what they will be when the recent increases are implemented; and if he will show the proportionate increases at such scale, allowing for the increase in the cost of living.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe following table sets out the level of teachers' salaries in April 1983 (there was no change between April and June of 1983) and April 1986. The information is provided for the minimum and maximum point on each of the teachers' scales and for selected groups of deputy headteachers and headteachers. The increase in all cases—allowing for minor rounding—is 14 per cent. This figure should be compared with an increase in the retail prices index of 12.45 per cent. from April 1983 to April 1985 (not April 1986 as there has not yet been a pay settlement for the year beginning April 1986). The real increase in teachers' pay at all levels over the period concerned is thus 1.55 per cent.
Teachers' salary rates at 1 April 1983 and 31 March 1986 1 April 1983 31 March 1986 Minimum £ Maximum £ Minimum £ Maximum £ Scale 1 5,178 8,142 5,904 9,285 Scale 2 5,949 9,132 6,783 10,413 Scale 3 7,359 10,497 8,391 11,970 Scale 4 8,754 11,763 9,984 13,413 Senior teacher 9,435 12,744 10,758 14,532 Deputy head groups 1–3 6,477 9,279 7,386 10,581 Deputy head group 14 14,622 15,879 16,674 18,108 Head group 1 9,108 10,137 10,386 11,559 Head group 14 20,610 21,828 23,502 24,891 Note:
Although the minimum—point 0—of scale 1 is quoted it should be noted that the majority of new entrant teachers begin on point 6 of scale 1. This group received £6,405 on 1 April 1983 and shall receive £7,305 from 31 March 1986.