Question follow-through · 41418
Teaching Assistants: Temporary Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are on temporary contracts.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 26 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 3 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are on temporary contracts.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Apr 2025
Answer published
Education is a devolved matter, and as such the response below outlines the information for schools in England only.As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, there was a headcount of 395,585 teaching assistants (282,925 full-time e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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