HC Deb 06 February 1990 vol 166 cc587-8W
Sir Peter Hordern

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a table showing the cost of teachers' salaries in each of the last five years, and the percentage increase in each year.

Mr. Alan Howarth

Spending by local education authorities in England on school teaching staff, including national insurance and superannuation, is recorded in the annual expenditure returns to the Department of the Environment. Spending in the last five years for which such data are available was as follows:

Year £ million (Cash) Year on year increase per cent.
1983–84 4,752 —
1984–85 4,946 4.1
1985–86 5,233 5.8
1986–87 5,765 10.2
1987–88 6,325 9.7

The changes in spending reflect changes in the number of teaching staff, as well as in teachers' salaries.