HC Deb 09 January 2003 vol 397 cc336-7W
Mr. Damian Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many classroom assistants were in service in England in each year since 1997 in(a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) all schools. [89308]

Mr. Miliband

The information requested is shown in the table.

Maintained schools: full-time equivalent1 number of teaching assistants by type of school—1997–2002—position in January each year—England
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Pupil Referral Units 267.8 366.1 428.9 538.6 622.7 891.7
Total Teaching Assistants 61,261.7 66,305.6 70,345.4 79,791.6 95,815.5 106,449.6
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. Excludes administrative staff, technicians and other non-teaching staff.
3 Includes middle schools as deemed.
4 Includes non-maintained special schools and special and general hospital schools.

Source:

Annual Schools Census