New Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he will honour a pledge made as education secretary to raise teachers’ starting salaries by 9%.
The morning after taking on his new role, he told BBC Breakfast: “My submission to the pay review body was to say we need to get teachers’ starting salaries to £30,000 and that’s where the 9% pay rise – we will deliver on that this year and 7.7% next year, and of course for more senior teachers my submission to the pay review body was 5% over two years.
“We will look across Government, across departments at what the pay review bodies will recommend.”
He added he would be happy to come on the programme again to “share my thinking as to where we land on public sector pay”.
