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Department for Education: Pay

Answer

A breakdown of staff within the requested bands for each body is provided in the following table.

Arm’s Length Body	Under £25,000	£25,001 to £35,000	£35,001 to £50,270	£50,271 to £100,000	£100,001 to £125,140	Over £125,140
Standards and Testing Agency	Nil	15	79	41	1	Nil
Teaching Regulation Agency	Nil	31	38	9	Nil	Nil
Office for Students	1	53	210	289	8	6
Student Loans Company	610	1632	510	597	21	7
Social Work England	Nil	85	136	97	3	1
Office of the Children’s Commissioner	Nil	Nil	15	8	2	1
Oak National Academy	Nil	1	18	83	7	1

Some of the department’s bodies are out of scope for this question. School Teachers’ Review Body does not have salaried staff. As non-ministerial departments, Ofsted and Ofqual have responsibility for their own staffing, pay and budgetary arrangements.

I have asked His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver, and Ofqual’s Chief Regulator, Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, respectively to write directly to the honourable member. A copy of each reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

Public sector pensions are unfunded multi-employer defined benefit schemes, and where an arm’s length body is a member of these schemes, it is not possible to separately identify their share of underlying assets and liabilities.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

18561

Session

2026-27

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2026-0541
Monday, 3 August 2026
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Subjects

Pay Workplace pensions Department for Education

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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