Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November to Question 112473, how many of the 150,000 education staff trained via the Autism Education Trust (AET) are (a) teachers and (b) school support staff; and what plans she has to continue the work of the trust.

A breakdown of the number of education staff trained via the Autism Education Trust (AET) is not collected centrally.

The department will shortly begin discussions with the AET to consider an extension to their current contract. The final decision over an extension will be subject to agreement of a work plan and detailed deliverables.