HC Deb 05 May 1989 vol 152 c256W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish the estimates for school years 1988–89 and 1989–90 mentioned in his answer to the hon. Member for Bridgend of 20 April,Official Report, columns 269–70; what evidence is available to his Department in relation to the accuracy of that estimate for school year 1988–89; and if he will make a statement;

(2) what account he took of the evidence in appendix B of Cm. 625, concerning the numbers of allowances being paid in September 1988, in preparing the estimates for school years 1988–89 and 1989–90 mentioned in his answer to the hon. Member on 20 April, columns 269–70; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

The estimated numbers of incentive allowances in ordinary schools in September 1988 and September 1989 were set out in circular 3/88. They formed the basis for the table submitted in evidence to the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers' Pay and Conditions in October 1988 and reproduced in my reply to the hon. Member on 20 April 1989, at columns269–70. The figures are as follows:

September 1988 September 1989
A 43,000 61,000
B 59,600 50,400
C 9,300 18,700
D 27,000 25,500
E 8,000 9,500
TOTAL 146,900 165,100

The evidence reproduced in appendix B of Cm. 625 was subsequently made available to the committee by the local authorities' conditions of service advisory board (LACSAB). The data suggest that the total number of incentive allowances awarded in the 1988–89 academic year broadly reflected the number assumed for that year in circular 3/88. No further information is at present available.

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