Teachers: Pay

(asked on 24th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Written Statement of 24 July 2018 on Schools Update, HCWS911, whether the Welsh Government is planned to receive any additional funding for the pay rise for teachers announced in that Written Statement.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 13th September 2018

The situation regarding teachers’ pay in Wales presents a unique set of circumstances, in which setting teacher pay rates is currently a reserved matter whilst meeting the costs of the award is devolved. This means that a UK Government decision to increase teacher pay has cost implications for the Welsh Government.

I can therefore confirm that, as a result of this inconsistency in the way teacher pay awards are currently set in Wales, the Welsh Government will receive additional funding of £8.7m in 2018/19 and £14.8m in 2019/20, in line with the principles set out in the Statement of Funding Policy.

Setting teacher pay will be fully devolved to Wales from September 2018 onwards, to pay for the 2019-20 academic year.

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