Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 183451 on Teachers: Pay, what estimate he has made of the number of schools that will receive funding that will not exactly match their costs in funding the difference between a one per cent pay rise and the 2018 pay award under the Teachers' Pay Grant.

The Department’s reforms have given schools more flexibility regarding pay and therefore the cost of implementing the 2018 pay award for an individual school will depend on the choices made by schools. It will be determined by decisions about structure and pay that they have made in previous years, and decisions they will make about their staffing for the 2018/19 academic year.

As such, it is not possible to calculate the exact amount of funding each school will spend in implementing the pay award.