Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school teaching assistants there were in (a) 2000, (b) 2005, (c) 2010 and (d) 2015.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants in service in state funded nursery and primary schools in January 2000, 2005, 2010 and November 2015.
| January | November | ||
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 |
Teaching Assistants | 53,400 | 97,900 | 126,300 | 174,500 |
Source: School Workforce Census