Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate has she made of the number of teaching assistants employed in (a) England, (b) Lancashire and (c) Hyndburn constituency.
The latest available figures on the number of full-time equivalent teaching assistants in state-funded schools are from November 2013 and are published online at:
www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013