§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out in theOfficial Report a table showing teachers' salaries in 1978–79 and those in 1988–89 in real terms.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe table gives the information requested for selected points on the teachers' pay scales:
Category1 April 1988 salary, cash prices £ April 1978 salary at constant (April 1988) prices2 £ Real terms increase per cent. Good Honours Graduate
entrant
8,859 7,862 13 Scale 3—Incentive "B" Teacher
15,063 12,777 18 Scale 4—Incentive "D" Teacher
17,064 14,199 20 Senior—Incentive "E" Teacher
18,264 15,189 20 Deputy Head School Group
4
15,636 11,876 32 Head School Group 4
17,721 13,961 27 Deputy Head School Group
11
20,586 16,779 23 Head School Group 11
27,102 21,391 27 1 All teachers, with the exception of good honours graduate entrants, are assumed to be at their salary maximum. 2 Constant price figures are derived using the retail price index.
§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total cost of teachers' salaries in 1978–79; what it is now; and what is the increase in real terms.
§ Mrs. RumboldIn 1978–79, the total cost of salaries1of teachers in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools in England was £2,710 million. The estimate of expenditure on teachers' salaries in the same sectors for 1988–89 is approximately £6,950 million. This represents an increase in real terms 2of nearly 20 per cent.
1. The cost of salaries includes allowances and employers' contributions towards national insurance and superannuation.
2. The 1978–79 cash terms have been converted into 1988–89 real terms using the gross domestic product (market prices) deflator.