§ Mr. David PorterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to encourage local pay arrangements for teachers; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe school teachers' pay and conditions document 1988 provides wide flexibility to local education authorities to take account of local circumstances in setting the pay of their teachers. Those flexibilities will be 79W further enhanced in the 1989 document following the recommendations of the IAC, and will in future be exercised by the governors of schools with delegated budgets.