Classroom Assistants

HC Deb 08 February 2002 vol 379 cc1217-8W

Mr. Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many classroom assistants were employed in(a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools on (i) 31 December 1997 and (ii) 31 December 2001. [33034]

Mr. Timms

The available information is shown in the table.

Full time equivalent number of teaching assistants1,2in maintained primary and secondary schools3, England (January each year)
	1997	1998	2001
Primary3	39,751	42,727	63,176
Secondary3	7,821	8,973	15,467
1 Includes both full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time non-teaching staff.
2 Includes nursery assistants, special needs support staff, minority ethnic pupil support staff and non-teaching assistants.
3 Includes middle schools as deemed.

Source:

Annual Schools' Census