Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the reply by Lord Nash on 28 July (HL Deb, cols 1416–19), what proportion of the salary costs in academies is spent on non-teaching staff.
The proportion of the salary costs in academies spent on non-teaching staff is 27.6%.
The proportion of the salary costs in free schools spent on non-teaching staff is 28.8%.
These figures are based on the last published data for academies’ and free schools’ expenditure, which covers the 2011-2012 financial year.
For comparison, the proportion of the salary costs in maintained schools spent on non-teaching staff is 33.1%.