New accounts for 2018-19 show that the Harris Federation had 12 members of staff earning more than £150,000 - an increase of one since the previous year - and 31 earning six figures.

They also show the highest paid school leader in the country has seen his salary rise above £450,000 a year.

Sir Dan Moynihan the chief executive of the Harris Federation was paid between £450,001 and £455,000 a year up to August last year.

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This means he has had at least a £5,000 pay rise from 2017-18 when accounts showed that he was earning between £440,001 to £445,000.

The latest accounts for Harris show that his employer’s pension contributions have remained in the same bracket over these two years at between £50,000 and £55,000.

Harris Federation’s top earners

(The salary figure for 2018-19 is in the first column, with 2017-18 in the second.)

Accounts for 2017-18 had shown that Sir Dan did not take a pay rise that year.

The Harris Federation is one of the country’s most prominent multi academy trusts.

In recent weeks it has become embroiled in a row with Ofsted over claims that the inspectorate’s new framework is penalising schools who choose three year GCSEs and will not work for disadvantaged pupils.