Education

Beth Winter Excerpts

Wednesday 25th January 2023 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from Education Questions on 16 January 2023.

[Beth Winter]

The National Foundation for Educational Research says today that a strategy for improving recruitment and retention should involve

“pay uplifts that are higher than pay growth in the wider labour market for most or all teachers”.

Does the Secretary of State agree? Is it not the case that she cannot address the crisis until she gives teachers and support staff the fully funded, inflation-plus pay rise that they deserve?

[Gillian Keegan]

I thank the hon. Lady for her question. In 2019, we launched the Government’s first ever integrated strategy to recruit and retain more teachers in schools, which had a number of different strands in it, including supporting teachers on the way in, recruiting more, and various routes into teaching. Of course, we have an independent pay review body and this year we accepted all its recommendations in full.

[Official Report, 16 January 2023, Vol. 726, c. 2.]

Letter of correction from the Secretary of State for Education:

An error has been identified in my response to the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Beth Winter).

The correct response should have been: