Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what research his Department has (a) undertaken and (b) commissioned on the adequacy of the level of school support staff pay.

The Department has not recently undertaken or commissioned any research on school support staff pay, as it is negotiated by local authorities and academies themselves.

In 2011, the Department did publish a topic note on support staff, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-support-staff-topic-paper.