Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many one-on-one classroom assistant tuition hours were provided on average each week for children with special educational needs in state schools in each of the last five years.

The Department does not collect data on the number of hours tuition provided to children with special educational needs by teaching assistants.

Schools, as the employers, decide how to deploy teaching assistants within their school structure in a way that reflects local priorities and circumstances.