Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost to schools of increasing starting salaries for teachers to £30,000.

On 2 September 2019 the Department announced plans to raise starting salaries for teachers to £30,000 by 2022 (plus London weighting). This proposal is fully affordable in the spending settlement announced last week across the next three years. The Department’s full costed proposals will be included in our written evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body in the coming months as part of the usual process.