HC Deb 30 July 1976 vol 916 cc448-9W
Mr. Beith

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied that the incremental system of salary payments in the teaching profession will in general be self-balancing in the current financial year.

Miss Margaret Jackson

The Burnham Committees, which are the relevant negotiating bodies, considered estimates of the cost of increments earlier this year in dealing with the settlement of teachers' salaries for the current financial year but concluded that no offset against the £6 limit was justified.