Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 100098

Academies: Pay

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

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

Georgia Gould
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...

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