Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new teaching assistants were employed in (a) England, (b) Lancashire and (c) Hyndburn constituency in each of the last five years.

The number of full-time equivalent teaching assistants employed in state-funded schools in England is published each year in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical series available online at:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce

Statistics on the number of new teaching assistants employed each year in England, Lancashire and Hyndburn are not available in the requested format.