Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 42011, on Classroom Assistants, if he will place in the Library a schedule of the other research held within the department and used to inform ongoing policy development referred to in that Answer including the (a) titles, including subtitles, (b) objectives, (c) commissioning dates, (d) reporting dates, (e) commissioning costs for reports that were externally produced and (f) the names of authors, or responsible institutions where the research was carried out externally.

The Department holds internal research entitled Teaching Assistant User Research from August 2019. The objective of the research was to investigate how the Department could add value and support schools to make more effective decisions around the use and deployment of Teaching Assistants. This research was not externally commissioned. ​​

The Department publishes all social and economic research that it commissions. In relation to school support staff, the Department has published:

• Deployment of Teaching Assistants in Schools by Ask Research in June 2019 and
• Exploring Teaching Assistants’ appetite to become Teachers by Cooper Gibson Research in September 2019.