Mr. Michael J. FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of(a) teaching and (b) non-teaching staff are covered by national pay scales in each local education authority in England. [150190]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisQualified and unqualified teachers in maintained schools are covered by national pay scales, except for agency teachers, and teachers in the four former grant-maintained schools that opted out of national pay arrangements under the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Act 1991. The number of agency teachers employed in each local authority is not known.
Schools in Education Action Zones have the right to opt out of national pay arrangements, but DfEE has not been informed of any doing so. Independent schools, including City Technology Colleges and city academies, are not covered by national pay arrangements.
Information on pay scales of non -teaching staff is not held centrally.
366WThe number of regular teachers in maintained schools in England increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.
There was a growth of more than 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–00 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.
Mr. Michael J. FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the average cost is of employing a teacher in each local education authority in England. [150193]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe average cost (including National Insurance contributions and superannuation) of employing a full-time qualified teacher in the maintained schools sector at March 1999, the latest date for which information is available is as follows:
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Area £ City of London 30,300 Camden 32,100 Greenwich 30,800 Hackney 1— Hammersmith and Fulham 31,100 Islington 30,800 Kensington and Chelsea 34,300 Lambeth 31,400 Lewisham 31,500 Southwark 30,700 Tower Hamlets 33,000 Wandsworth 30,600 Westminster 30,300 Barking and Dagenham 29,900 Barnet 29,200 Bexley 28,900 Brent 31,300 Bromley 29,500 Croydon 29,100 Haling 29,800 Enfield 29,500 Haringey 30,500 Harrow 29,500 Havering 29,500 Hillingdon 29,200 Hounslow 29,200 Kingston upon Thames 29,400 Merton 29,500 Newham 29,800 Redbridge 29,200 Richmond upon Thames 29,200 Sutton 29,300 Waltham Forest 29,700 Birmingham 28,000 Coventry 28,300 Dudley 27,700 Sandwell 27,500 Solihull 27,500 Walsall 27,800 Wolverhampton 28,100 Knowsley 27,600 Liverpool 28,100 St. Helens 28,000 Sefton 27,700 Wirral 28,400 Bolton 27,700 Bury 27,600 Manchester 26,400 Oldham 27,600 Rochdale 27,600 Salford 27,900 Stockport 27,800 Tameside 27,400 Trafford 27,800 368W
Area £ Wigan 28,000 Barnsley 27,900 Doncaster 27,700 Rotherham 27,800 Sheffield 27,700 Bradford 27,700 Calderdale 27,600 Kirklees 27,800 Leeds 28,000 Wakefield 27,200 Gateshead 27,400 Newcastle upon Tyne 27,700 North Tyneside 27,700 South Tyneside 27,700 Sunderland 27,500 Isles of Stilly 26,600 Bath and North East Somerset 1— City of Bristol 27,800 North Somerset 28,000 South Gloucestershire 27,600 Hartlepool 27,300 Middlesbrough 27,500 Redcar and Cleveland 27,300 Stockton on Tees 27,400 City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 27,800 East Riding of Yorkshire 27,700 North East Lincolnshire 27,700 North Lincolnshire 27,600 North Yorkshire 28,000 York 27,600 Bedfordshire 27,800 Luton 28,400 Buckinghamshire 27,900 Milton Keynes 27,700 Derbyshire 27,900 City of Derby 27,600 Dorset 27,800 Poole 27,300 Bournemouth 27,700 Durham 27,300 Darlington 27,400 East Sussex 27,800 Brighton and Hove 28,000 Hampshire 27,500 Portsmouth 27,300 Southampton 27,400 Leicestershire 27,600 Leicester City 27,900 Rutland 28,400 Staffordshire 27,700 Stoke-on-Trent 27,600 Wiltshire 27,900 Swindon 27,300 Bracknell Forest 28,300 Windsor and Maidenhead 28,600 West Berkshire 27,500 Reading 27,400 Slough 27,500 Wokingham 28,000 Cambridgeshire 27,600 City of Peterborough 27,500 Cheshire 27,800 Halton 27,500 Warrington 27,400 Devon 27,900 City of Plymouth 27,700 Torbay 27,600 Essex 28,200 Southend 27,900 Thurrock 28,300 Herefordshire 27,600 Worcestershire 27,700 Kent 28,000 Medway 27,700
Area £ Lancashire 27,800 Blackburn with Darwcn 27,800 Blackpool 27,300 Nottinghamshire 28,600 City of Nottingham 27,900 Shropshire 27,900 Telford and Wrekin 28,100 Cornwall 28,200 Cumbria 28,000 Gloucestershire 27,500 Hertfordshire 28,000 Isle of Wight 27,400 Lincolnshire 27,800 Norfolk 27,800 Northamptonshire 27,500 Northumberland 28,000 Oxfordshire 27,600 Somerset 28,200 Suffolk 27,700 Surrey 27,500 Warwickshire 27,600 West Sussex 27,600 England 28,100 1 Salaries for Hackney and Bath and North East Somerset are not available because of incomplete annual returns from the authorities for March 1999. Note:
All costs have been rounded to the nearest £100.
The average pay cost per teacher has been estimated by taking the average salary of full-time qualified teachers (including heads and deputy heads) in each local authority and adding 14.8 per cent. for National Insurance contributions and superannuation.
It is estimated that the average pay of a full-time qualified teacher (including heads and deputy heads) in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary sector at April 2001 will be £27,900 (including the post threshold pay scale).
From April 2001 new graduate recruits can expect to earn £17,000 a year (up 6 per cent. from the previous year) and starting salaries in Inner London will rise to £20,000 (up 9 per cent. from the previous year).
An estimated 250,000 classroom teachers in England are eligible for the post-threshold pay scale, of whom 81 per cent. have applied. Teachers moving to the new scale will receive a £2.000 pay increase from 1 September 2000 and can progress on the basis of their performance up to the scale maximum of over £30,000 excluding allowances.
The number of regular teachers in maintained schools in England increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.
There was a growth of more than 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–00 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.