Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nick Gibb and Lord Cryer

Monday 4th July 2016 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I am sure the hon. Gentleman will bear up stoically and with fortitude under the burden.

[John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)]

Could the Minister now answer the original question? Is he advocating the abolition of national pay scales, because that is what it sounds like he is saying?

[Mr Gibb]

What I am saying is that, with the new freedoms academies have, they are able to pay salaries to attract the best teachers. That is a very good policy; it enables them to retain and attract the graduates in maths, physics and modern languages that schools and headteachers are telling us they need to recruit.