A question on #TeachingAssistants #TemporaryEmployment tabled by Jim Shannon on 26-03-2025 has been answered by Catherine McKinnell.

Heading: Teaching Assistants: Temporary Employment
Question ID: 1788803
UIN: 41418
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-26
Asking Member ID: 4131
Asking Member display name: Jim Shannon
Asking Member handle: jimshannonmp
Asking Member Twitter reference: @jimshannonmp
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of teaching assistants who are on temporary contracts.
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Date answered: 2025-04-03
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4125
Answering Member display name: Catherine McKinnell
Answering Member handle: CMcKinnellMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @CMcKinnellMP
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Answer text: 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...
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Answering body ID: 60
Answering body name: Department for Education
Tweeted: true