Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make a comparative assessment of the rates of pay of (a) agency supply teachers and (b) teachers employed in schools under the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions document.

Arrangements for the engagement of agency supply teachers, including their pay rates, are private commercial arrangements. The Government does not collect data on these arrangements and so is unable to make a comparative assessment with the salaries of teachers who are subject to the terms of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.