Department for Education: Pay
(asked on 14th July 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for each Arm's Length Body (ALB) their Department sponsors, (a) how many people are employed in the following bands of total earnings, or nearest equivalent, (i) under £25,000, (ii) £ 25,001 to £ 35,000, (iii) £35,001 to £50,270, (iv) £50,271 to £100,00, (v) £100,001 to £ 125,140 and (vi) over £125,140, and (b) what estimate they have made of the total unfunded public sector pension liability.
A breakdown of staff within the requested bands for each body is provided in the following table.
Arm’s Length Body | Under £25,000 | £25,001 to £35,000 | £35,001 to £50,270 | £50,271 to £100,000 | £100,001 to £125,140 | Over £125,140 |
Standards and Testing Agency | Nil | 15 | 79 | 41 | 1 | Nil |
Teaching Regulation Agency | Nil | 31 | 38 | 9 | Nil | Nil |
Office for Students | 1 | 53 | 210 | 289 | 8 | 6 |
Student Loans Company | 610 | 1632 | 510 | 597 | 21 | 7 |
Social Work England | Nil | 85 | 136 | 97 | 3 | 1 |
Office of the Children’s Commissioner | Nil | Nil | 15 | 8 | 2 | 1 |
Oak National Academy | Nil | 1 | 18 | 83 | 7 | 1 |
Some of the department’s bodies are out of scope for this question. School Teachers’ Review Body does not have salaried staff. As non-ministerial departments, Ofsted and Ofqual have responsibility for their own staffing, pay and budgetary arrangements.
I have asked His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, and Ofqual’s Chief Regulator, Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, respectively to write directly to the honourable member. A copy of each reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.
Public sector pensions are unfunded multi-employer defined benefit schemes, and where an arm’s length body is a member of these schemes, it is not possible to separately identify their share of underlying assets and liabilities.