Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of those in support roles in state-funded schools at the latest date for which such figures are available were identified as (a) white British and (b) any other ethnic group.

In November 2013 there were 658,000 support staff (which includes teaching assistants and all non-classroom based school staff) working in state-funded schools that were White-British (87% of support staff where their ethnicity is known) and a further 95,000 (13%) support staff from all other ethnic groups. Ethnicity data is known for 95% of all staff in support roles.

The information requested is also published in table 6 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2013’ and is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013