Schools: Finance
Commons · Question 63754 · Tabled 30 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 8 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Blake Stephenson
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's press release published on 22 May 2025 entitled, Teachers to benefit from pay boost, if she will make an estimate of the cost to schools of funding the first 1% of the pay awa
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 8 Jul 2025
Schools are receiving £615 million to support them with the costs of the 2025 pay awards, over and above the funding already being provided to schools in financial year 2025/26. The increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) costs were considered...