Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to make changes to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document to permit salary sacrifice for the purchase of a car.

There is a statutory process for revising the pay and conditions of teachers. Any change must first be referred by the Secretary of State to the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). The demands on the STRB’s time and resources mean that the Government has to make decisions on prioritising the issues it refers.

The Government is committed to making the teaching profession an attractive and competitive career but is not currently considering proposing an extension to the current salary sacrifice schemes for teachers to cover cars.

Academies and free schools are not required to follow the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document and could choose to offer their teachers access to car schemes as part of salary sacrifice arrangements should they wish to do so.