Public Sector Pay
Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Jack Dromey(5 years, 9 months ago)
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Elizabeth Truss
I understand from my colleagues in the Department for Education that this will also apply to Wales.
Jack Dromey (Birmingham, Erdington) (Lab)
Past announcements on school budgets have unravelled within days, so is the Chief Secretary guaranteeing that every single penny to fund the teachers’ pay increase will come out of central budgets, with not one single penny falling on school budgets? Does the Chief Secretary accept that this does not change the grim reality of 351 out of 354 Birmingham schools facing real-terms pay cuts and budget cuts over the next two years?
Elizabeth Truss
I have been very clear that the additional £500 million over two years will be coming from central DFE budgets. It will be allocated to schools. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education will be announcing exactly how that allocation will work in due course.