Schools minister could not say what would have to be cut to fund the teachers' pay rise - but insisted school budgets would be unaffected
The Prime Minister announced a 6.5% pay increase for teachers today, accepting recommendations from the government’s independent review body.
Speaking to schools minister Nick Gibb on Thursday evening, LBC's Andrew Marr sought to pin down what exactly would be cut to fund the 3% uplift for teachers' salaries.Rishi's final offer on public sector pay: Teachers and junior doctors to get 6% more to stave off strikesRishi Sunak agrees to give millions of public sector workers pay rise - but how much has everyone been offered?Mr Gibb said the cuts would "not impact on schools at all", adding that "central budgets.
The minister said that officials were still working on the details and "are making some very difficult decisions about central programmes" that will have to be cut. He would not elaborate on what these central programmes were.Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the largest teaching union, the National Education Union , said on Thursday that the pay offer was the “biggest [pay rise] teachers have received since 2000.
The pay recommendations will “allow teachers and school leaders to call off strike action and resume normal relations with government,” she said in the joint statement with the government.
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