§ Virginia Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will estimate the (a) number and (b) average pay of (i) teachers and (ii) all other education staff in (A) 1997, (B) now and (C) 2011. [177370]
788W§ Mr. MilibandThe information available is given in the following table. The table shows the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teachers, teachers' average salary and FTE numbers of support staff in maintained schools in England in each of the years. Information on school support staff pay is not collected centrally. Estimates of the number and average pay of teachers and other education support staff in 2011 have not been made.
Teachers (number)
Teacher average salary1 (£)
Support staff (number)
1997 399,200 21,770 136,500 2002 419,600 28,720 217,000 20042 427,800 — 241,700 1Teachers in England and Wales. 2002 is the most recent year for which pay data are available. 2 Provisional data. Source: Annual 618G survey, Database of Teacher Records and Annual Schools Census.