Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants were in post in Oldham schools in each of the last five years.
The following table provides the full time equivalent number[1] of teaching assistants in service in state funded schools in Oldham local authority and England in November each year between 2012 and 2016.
| Oldham | England |
2012 | 1,500 | 232,300 |
2013 | 1,500 | 243,700 |
2014[2] | 1,600 | 255,100 |
2015[3] | 1,300 | 263,000 |
2016[4] | 1,600 | 265,600 |
Source: School Workforce Census |
[1] Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100 teaching assistants.
[2] Excludes figures for one school in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2014.
[3] Excludes figures for five schools in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2015.
[4] Excludes figures for two schools in Oldham local authority that did not supply teaching assistant data in 2016.