The Department for Education has published the names of 160 academy trusts it has written to, questioning why they are paying six-figure salaries.

Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), has written a series of letters to the chairs of MATs and single academies trusts asking for their rationale for paying these high wages.

Letters were sent out at the end of last year to single academy trusts paying more than £150,000.

This has been followed this year with letters to MATs paying more than £150,000 and all trusts paying two or more people a salary of between £100,000 and £150,000.

Now the DfE has published a full list of those trusts which received letters.

The ESFA sent out 29 letters to single academy trusts and 88 to MATs paying more than £150,000. It has also written to 43 trusts which have two or more employees earning more than £100,000.

Of the 29 single academy trusts paying more than £150,000, 13 were said to be at risk of financial difficulty.

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