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Teachers' Pay Award

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the total cost (a) nationally and (b) to each local education authority of the teachers' pay award in 1995-96. [11746]

Mr. Robin Squire: The total estimated cost in England and Wales of the teachers' pay increase in 1995-96 is around £290 Million. The following table illustrates the cost of the award by updating the 1993-94 expenditure recorded by local education authorities in England and Wales for teaching staff salaries in nursery, primary, secondary and special schools by the teachers' pay awards of 2.9 per cent. in 1994-95 and 2.7 per cent. in 1995-96. The 1993-94 expenditure figures are the latest available for local education authority schools in England and Wales. The figures in the table take no account of changes in teacher numbers or other factors that affect the teachers' paybill.

LEA expenditure on teachers' salaries
£ thousand

Pre-primary and primary, secondary and special schools1993-94 (actual)1994-95 increase (2.9 per cent.)1995-96 increase (2.7 per cent.)
Corporation of London3781111
Camden37,7741,0951,049
Greenwich53,7511,5591,493
Hackney41,8711,2141,163
Hammersmith and Fulham25,087728697
Islington37,2941,0821,036
Kensington and Chelsea15,922462442
Lambeth39,6981,1511,103
Lewisham43,2351,2541,201
Southwark38,0561,1041,057
Tower Hamlets58,0121,6821,612
Wandsworth31,532914876
City of Westminster30,151874838
Barking34,4871,000958
Barnet55,4911,6091,542
Bexley40,9621,1881,138
Brent39,6131,1491,101
Bromley35,2831,023980
Croydon51,2781,4871,425
Ealing46,1191,3371,281
Enfield51,8731,5041,441
Haringey48,5951,4091,350
Harrow38,7021,1221,075
Havering41,6771,2091,158
Hillingdon26,648773740
Hounslow46,9271,3611,304
Kingston upon Thames21,879634608
Merton33,279965925
Newham54,5331,5811,515
Redbridge49,5481,4371,377
Richmond upon Thames25,724746715
Sutton22,531653626
Waltham Forest46,8671,3591,302
Birmingham211,7856,1425,884
Coventry69,8402,0251,940
Dudley55,5401,6111,543
Sandwell66,0611,9161,835
Solihull41,9211,2161,165
Walsall55,6691,6141,547
Wolverhampton53,6351,5551,490
Knowsley34,9351,013971
Liverpool104,9393,0432,916
St. Helens39,1491,1351,088
Sefton57,3701,6641,594
Wirral69,2782,0091,925
Bolton54,7281,5871,521
Bury33,505972931
Manchester91,5412,6552,543
Oldham56,4831,6381,569
Rochdale39,3891,1421,094
Salford47,6411,3821,324
Stockport53,5511,5531,488
Tameside39,5011,1461,097
Trafford36,2621,0521,007
Wigan66,6551,9331,852
Barnsley41,3631,2001,149
Doncaster62,1981,8041,728
Rotherham58,5401,6981,626
Sheffield92,0462,6692,557
Bradford109,0723,1633,030
Calderdale37,9351,1001,054
Kirklees81,0762,3512,253
Leeds146,0724,2364,058
Wakefield63,1311,8311,754
Gateshead40,4581,1731,124
Newcastle upon Tyne53,5181,5521,487
North Tyneside40,5011,1751,125
South Tyneside31,493913875
Sunderland65,6541,9041,824
Isles of Scilly6081817
Avon177,2895,1414,926
Bedfordshire105,3013,0542,926
Berkshire135,5403,9313,766
Buckinghamshire112,2093,2543,118
Cambridgeshire103,0412,9882,863
Cheshire185,4575,3785,153
Cleveland124,4423,6093,457
Cornwall86,6532,5132,407
Cumbria88,9472,5792,471
Derbyshire168,1754,8774,672
Devon175,9995,1044,890
Dorset98,1862,8472,728
Durham120,7433,5023,355
East Sussex116,1233,3683,226
Essex211,3586,1295,872
Gloucestershire74,0502,1472,057
Hampshire256,9607,4527,139
Hereford and Worcester128,3393,7223,566
Hertfordshire186,2275,4015,174
Humberside177,1225,1374,921
Isle of Wight24,264704674
Kent227,8956,6096,332
Lancashire294,5178,5418,183
Leicestershire185,0045,3655,140
Lincolnshire88,0992,5552,448
Norfolk124,8073,6193,468
North Yorkshire138,9584,0303,861
Northamptonshire109,0863,1633,031
Northumberland62,3981,8101,734
Nottinghamshire204,1375,9205,672
Oxfordshire105,4303,0572,929
Shropshire79,4222,3032,207
Somerset84,7492,4582,355
Staffordshire193,8185,6215,385
Suffolk130,1183,7733,615
Surrey143,6904,1673,992
Warwickshire90,9652,6382,527
West Sussex128,5683,7283,572
Wiltshire96,3402,7942,677
Clwyd79,4962,3052,209
Dyfed83,7482,4292,327
Gwent89,4522,5942,485
Gwynedd52,7831,5311,466
Mid Glamorgan126,5173,6693,515
South Glamorgan84,2942,4452,342
West Glamorgan79,2662,2992,202
Powys27,607801767

29 Jan 1996 : Column: 556

Departmental Expenditure

Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment she has made of the total expenditure of her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies on publicity for each of the years (a) 1979-80, (b) 1989-90, (c) 1991-92, (d) 1993-94, (e) 1994-95 and (f) 1995-96 (i) to date and (ii) as estimated for the whole year; what estimate she has made of such expenditure for 1996-97; and if she will break these figures down to indicate expenditure on (1) advertising and (2) press and public relations. [11344]

Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 January 1996]: Before the merger in July 1995, the Department operated separately as the Department for Education and the Employment Department. We will continue to follow separately-funded programmes of publicity until the end of the financial year 1995-96.

Information on the publicity spend of agencies and non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally by the former Departments. It was not the policy of the former Departments to make use of paid public relations services. Press enquiries were handled by their own specialist staff and costs are not separately identifiable.

The costs of the total expenditure on publicity and on advertising for the former Departments are as follows:

£ thousand

Total publicity expenditureAdvertising
ED
1979-8070not available
1989-9030,30016,630
1991-9218,30012,600
1993-9410,9707,300
1994-9511,2008,000
1995-96 (to date) 6,4004,500
1995-96 (estimated for whole year)7,5956,283
DFE
1979-8010492
1989-901,400250
1991-928,8813,03
1993-949,9941,442
1994-958,088147
1995-96 (to date)1,34249
1995-96 (estimated for whole year)5,430300

29 Jan 1996 : Column: 557

The projected spending on publicity in the 1996-97 public expenditure survey allocation for the Department is £13,040,000. Details on how this will be divided between various forms of publicity have not yet been agreed.

Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate she has made of the annual telephone costs to (a) her Department, (b) her Department's agencies and (c) her Department's non-departmental public bodies staff for each of the years (i) 1979-80, (ii) 1989-90, (iii) 1991-92, (iv) 1993-94, (v) 1994-95, (vi) 1995-96 and (vii) 1996-97; and if internal telephone directories are available to staff in all areas of (a) to (c). [11346]

Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 January 1996]: The information is as follows:


For 1995-96 and earlier the figures amalgamate the relevant expenditure of the former Department for Education and the former Department of Employment. The figures for 1993-94 and later years include the telephone costs for the Teacher's Pensions Agency which cannot be separately identified.



    b. Telephone costs to the Employment Service
    (i) 1979-80: Figures are not available
    (ii) 1989-90: Figures are not available
    (iii) 1991-92: Figures are not available
    (iv) 1993-94: £14,900,554
    (v) 1994-95: £13,699,000
    (vi) 1995-96: £12,833,333 (estimate)
    (vii) 1996-97: £12,833,333 (estimate)
    c. Information about telephone costs to the Department's non-departmental public bodies is not available centrally. On availability of internal directories the answers are:
    (a) Yes
    (b) Yes
    (c) Information not available to the DfEE.


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