(8 years, 1 month ago)
Commons ChamberCould 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?
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.