§ Mr. Nigel JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if he will list, for each education authority not in receipt of area cost adjustment, the average teacher's salary for the last year that figures are available;
(2) if he will list, for each education authority in receipt of area cost adjustment, the average teacher's salary for the last year that figures are available.
§ Mr. ForthThe most recent date for which figures are available is 31 March 1990.
The area cost adjustment is designed to compensate local authorities in London and south-east England for additional employment costs incurred in that region. It is based on evidence of general market earnings levels drawn from the annual new earnings survey.
Some care must be taken in drawing parallels between differentials in average teacher salaries and the area cost adjustment. First, in the field of education, the adjustment compensates for the additional labour costs which apply to all types of staff employed in educational work. While approximately three quarters of total local authority education expenditure is on labour costs, in the current year only half this total expenditure relates to teachers' pay.
Secondly, the average salary figures given below do not necessarily fully reflect the higher costs of employing teachers in the south-east, since in order to attract teaching staff, authorities in that region have generally found it necessary to offer additional incentives, particularly to help with the costs of housing.
With these qualifications, the average teacher's salary was, for education authorities which receive area cost adjustment:
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£ ILEA 16,662 Barking 16,635 Barnet 16,075 Bexley 16,322 Brent 17,059 Bromley 16,581 Croydon 16,522 Ealing 16,781 Enfield 16,116 Haringey 16,692 Harrow 15,982 Havering 16,065 Hillmgdon 16,411 Hounslow 16,118 Kingston 16,236 Merton 17,137 Newham 17,233 Redbridge 16,163 Richmond 15,939 Sutton 16,312 Waltham Forest 16,182 Bedfordshire 15,501 Berkshire 15,581 Buckinghamshire 15,283 East Sussex 15,315 Essex 15,513 Hampshire 15,236 Hertfordshire 15,531 Isle of Wight 15,193 Kent 15,492 Oxfordshire 15,453 Surrey 15,639 West Sussex 15,252 Isles of Scilly 15,023 The average teacher's salary was, for local education authorities which do not receive area cost adjustment:
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£ Birmingham 15,489 Coventry 15,520 Dudley 15,079 Sandwell 15,309 Solihull 15,380 Walsall 15,310 Wolverhampton 15,314 Knowsley 15,447 Liverpool 15,531 St. Helens 15,289 Sefton 15,577 Wirral 15,202 Bolton 15,034 Bury 15,373 Manchester 15,672 Oldham 14,898 Rochdale 15,272 Salford 15,348 Stockport 15,350 Tameside 15,256 Trafford 15,379 Wigan 15,526 Barnsley 15,201 Doncaster 15,369 Rotherham 15,198 Sheffield 15,706 Bradford 14,960 Calderdale 15,381 Kirklees 15,182 Leeds 15,421 Wakefield 15,390 Gateshead 15,592 Newcastle 15,428
£ North Tyneside 15,298 South Tyneside 15,236 Sunderland 15,175 Avon 15,477 Cambridgeshire 15,196 Cheshire 15,477 Cleveland 15,349 Cornwall 15,499 Cumbria 15,409 Derbyshire 15,349 Devon 15,245 Dorset 15,363 Durham 15,399 Gloucestershire 15,264 Hereford 15,496 Humberside 15,531 Lancashire 15,318 Leicestershire 15,434 Lincolnshire 15,484 Norfolk 15,432 North Yorkshire 15,352 Northampton 15,273 Northumberland 15,496 Nottinghamshire 15,472 Shropshire 15,441 Somerset 15,341 Staffordshire 15,530 Suffolk 15,220 Warwickshire 15,542 Wiltshire 15,198 All these figures are average salaries of full-time teachers in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools, including grant-maintained schools.