Academies: Pay
Commons · Question 100098 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, What benchmarks her Department uses to assess whether academy trust executive pay represents value for money when trusts are making redundancies.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 5 Jan 2026
The department’s Academy Trust Handbook is clear that executive pay must be justifiable and should reflect individual responsibility alongside local retention and recruitment needs. The Handbook is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publication...