§ Mr. FrenchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will set out the scale of basic salaries for classroom teachers and the range of incentive allowances and incremental enhancements available.
§ Mr. ForthQualified teachers other than head teachers or deputy head teachers are paid on a 10 point standard scale:
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Scale point Annaul salary £ 1 11,184 2 11,775 3 12,366 4 12,954 5 13,839 6 14,721 7 15,606 8 16,488 9 17,664 10 18,837 A teacher not at the top of the scale can have the value of his or her incremental point enhanced by £294, £591, £885, or £1,173, provided that the next scale point is not exceeded by more than £3.
Discretionary scale points may be added to the top of the standard scale up to a maximum of £3,225 and awarded in the light of a teacher's performance.
Incentive allowances may be awarded at one of the following rates:
Rate Annual amount (£) A 1,296 B 2,097 C 4,194 D 5,595 E 7,692
§ Mr. FrenchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the maximum salary payable to a classroom teacher inclusive of incentive allowances and incremental enhancements.
§ Mr. ForthThe maximum salary payable to a classroom teacher at the top of the standard scale—excluding London allowances—is £29,754. This includes an incentive allowance at rate E and discretionary scale points worth £3,225.
§ Mr. FrenchTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of education funding goes towards teachers' salaries.
§ Mr. ForthThe great bulk of central Government support for local authorities is through unhypothecated22W revenue support grant. It is therefore not possible to say how much of this support is for teachers' salaries. Decisions about how much to spend on teachers' pay are for local authorities and, under local management and grant maintained status, individual schools. Teachers' salaries represented about 55 per cent. of LEAs' total net recurrent spending in 1990–91, the latest year for which outturn information is available.