Mr. Michael FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment he made of(a) teacher salaries in each local authority and (b) teacher salary costs as a percentage of overall education spending share, for each local authority when setting the Revenue Support Grant for 2003–04. [131685]
§ Mr. MilibandThe Department does not collect information on the distribution of teaching salaries by local education authority.
The calculation of Revenue Support Grant takes account of differing wage pressures across England and Wales through the area cost adjustment using data from the New Earnings Survey (NES). This contains information on the occupation and workplace of participants. Teaching professionals1 is one of the minor occupational classifications into which all NES participants are placed. The occupation of each 500W individual in the NES at the minor level makes up 81 of the variables we examine in calculating the area cost adjustment. Full details of the ACA calculation are available on the ODPM website at http://www.local.odpm.gov.uk/finance/0304/acatechs.pdf