Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average unit cost was to a (a) school and (b) local authority of employing a (i) teacher and (ii) classroom assistant in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what estimate she has made of such costs in (A) 2016-17, (B) 2017-18, (C) 2018-19 and (D) 2019-20.

Further to our response to the honourable member’s previous question, (60334), we can only provide details of salary costs, which are as quoted in the previous response.

The latest available statistics on the average salaries of teaching assistants employed by schools and local authorities in England were published in PQ 60334 in January 2017 in Hansard at the following link:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-01-17/60334