PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Classroom Assistants and Teachers: North West (9 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what changes to the numbers of teachers and teaching assistants there have been in (a) Westmorland and Lonsdale, (b) South Lakeland, (c) Cumbria and (d) the North West (i) since 2010 and (ii) between 2005 and 2010.

Asked by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers and teaching assistants in Cumbria and the North West in 2005 to 2010 is published in tables 19 and 26 of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England (including Local Authority level figures) January 2010 (Revised)'. This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/218925/local_20authority_20tables_20sfr112010.xls

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2010 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2010 (Provisional)'. This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2010-provisional

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2011 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2011'. This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2011

The information requested for full-time equivalent teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in 2012 is published in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2012' This is published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2012

The information for November 2013 will be published in late July in the underlying data file of the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce In England, November 2013'. This will be published online:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013

District and Parliamentary constituency level school workforce numbers are not routinely published. The information requested for Westmorland and Lonsdale and South Lakeland between January 2005 and 2010 and since 2010 could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Mr David Laws (Liberal Democrat)
16 July 2014