Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school teaching assistants there were in (a) 2000, (b) 2005, (c) 2010 and (d) 2015.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants in service in state funded secondary schools in January 2000, 2005, 2010 and November 2015.
| January | November | ||
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
Teaching Assistants | 12,500 | 30,000 | 39,900 | 52,300 |
Source: School Workforce Census