Education chiefs have not submitted a business plan for the teachers’ pay deal they offered to a union last week.

The position was revealed after permission was given for an emergency question in Tynwald this morning as the pay dispute between the Education Department and teachers rumbles on.

Education Minister Graham Cregeen was also accused of abandoning a joint negotiating framework with all the unions - by striking a deal with the NEU - while he said the other unions, which have all voted in favour industrial action, had not provided enough detail of what they wanted.

Last week the Department of Education, Sport and Culture struck a deal with the National Education Union that would see all teachers move to the ’London Fringe Area’ pay range and remove the two lowest scales of pay bands, meaning a rise in the starting salary for teachers. That offer will be voted on by NEU members.

But in Tynwald on Tuesday, Mr Cregeen confirmed that a business case for such a package had not yet been put to the Treasury.

He said the department had not required Treasury concurrence to reach a deal in principle.

’We are going to put a business case for some additional funding or for how we fund that paper,’ he added.

But Julie Edge (Onchan) said she was ’astounded’ that the department had announced the in-principle deal with NEU leaders without first ensuring that there would be Treasury concurrence.

Meanwhile, the National Association of Head Teachers, the NASUWT and the Associational of School and College Leaders have all voted in favour of industrial action in the pay dispute.