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Non-teaching Staff: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of school support staff in state-funded schools in England who are employed on (i) zero-hour and (ii) term time-only contracts.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
7 Jan 2025
Answer
16 Jan 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the (a) number and (b) proportion of school support staff in state-funded schools in England who are employed on (i) zero-hour and (ii) term time-only contracts.

  2. 7 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.The school workforce census does not collec...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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