Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants were employed in schools in each year since 2010.

Statistics showing the number of teaching assistants in service in state funded schools in England in each year since 2010 are available from Table 1 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2015’ available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2015