Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching assistants have been employed in secondary schools in Nottinghamshire in each of the last three years for which data are available.

The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of teaching assistants in service in state funded secondary schools in Nottinghamshire and England, as at November in each of the latest three years:

Source: School Workforce Census.

[1] 2016 figures for the Nottinghamshire local authority exclude 2 out of 46 schools that did not provide a return for teaching assistant numbers.

[2] Excludes estimates for missing schools and centrally employed staff.