§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Blackburn,Official Report, 7 March, columns 626–27, 324W what assumption he made in calculating the cost of £620 million in 1990–91 of implementing the recommendations of the interim advisory committee on teachers' pay in the manner he has proposed of (a) the number of teachers who would be awarded pay supplements of £750 in the Inner London weighting area from 1 April, (b) the number of teachers awarded enhanced incremental points and (c) the number of teachers whose maximum was extended to £18,000.
§ Mr. MacGregorI followed the IAC in assuming that 50 per cent. of eligible teachers would receive the new London pay supplement. The new main scale discretions, which will be introduced from 1 January 1991, are designed to give authorities a wider range of options on pay in the light of local circumstances: they will not necessarily lead to increases in costs overall.