Some of us think that it may cause some kind of disruption, which certainly would not help recruitment to the teaching profession. My Lords, I answer the last point first. The Government believe that performance-related pay will reward really high quality teachers in the classroom and will be beneficial to teacher supply in that it will keep more people in the profession and attract good graduates. I am grateful to my noble friend for the welcome he has given to the increasing number of classroom assistants. Clearly, that is very important from the point of view of support to teachers.
Classroom assistants facilitate their job and make it easier.
The Government will keep the training salaries under review. Although it is very early to assess their impact, there has been a very substantial increase in the number of applications as a result of the introduction of this change. But the noble Baroness may have information that I do not have. On the wastage of teachers from the profession, it is important to do all that we can to try to retain teachers. Again, the statistics are good.