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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.
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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.
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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.
a. Telephone costs to the Department
(i) 1979-80: Figures are not available
(ii) 1989-90: Figures are not available
(iii) 1991-92: £6,157,168
(iv) 1993-94: £6,269,422
(v) 1994-95: £5,867,605
(vi) 1995-96: £4,800,000 (estimate)
(vii) 1996-97: £4,800,000 (estimate)
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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