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Classroom Assistants: North East

Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many full-time equivalent teaching assistants there were in (a) maintained nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools, (d) special schools and (e) pupil referral units in each education authority in the north-east region in each January from 2005 to 2009. [302461]

Mr. Coaker: The following tables provide the full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants employed in local authority maintained schools in each local authority in the North East Government Office Region, in each January from 2005 to 2009 broken down by the phase of education.

Full-time equivalent number of teaching assistants in service in local authority maintained schools( 1) by phase, coverage: North East Government Office Region, years: January 2005 to 2009
Nursery
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
North East	150	120	150	140	150
Gateshead	*	*	*	*	*
Newcastle upon Tyne	50	40	50	20	30
North Tyneside	10	*	*	*	*
South Tyneside	10	10	10	10	10
Sunderland	50	30	40	40	50
Hartlepool	*	*	*	*	*
Middlesbrough	*	*	*	*	*
Redcar and Cleveland	*	*	*	*	*
Stockton-on-Tees	*	*	*	*	*
Durham	10	20	40	40	50
Darlington	10	10	10	10	*
Northumberland	*	*	*	*	*

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Primary
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
North East	4,040	4,180	4,550	5,060	5,130
Gateshead	320	340	370	390	380
Newcastle upon Tyne	440	320	360	370	370
North Tyneside	180	250	260	310	260
South Tyneside	270	280	270	290	320
Sunderland	540	540	640	680	630
Hartlepool	190	180	170	260	280
Middlesbrough	340	330	360	390	420
Redcar and Cleveland	150	220	210	290	290
Stockton-on-Tees	210	240	270	360	370
Durham	730	740	810	860	940
Darlington	160	190	220	250	220
Northumberland	520	550	600	620	660

Secondary
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
North East	1,250	1,480	1,580	1,650	1,800
Gateshead	40	50	50	40	60
Newcastle upon Tyne	110	160	170	170	210
North Tyneside	70	90	100	120	110
South Tyneside	90	100	70	80	80
Sunderland	110	140	150	140	150
Hartlepool	100	80	90	90	100
Middlesbrough	60	70	70	70	100
Redcar and Cleveland	60	90	110	130	140
Stockton-on-Tees	80	100	100	130	140
Durham	160	170	200	200	210
Darlington	50	40	60	50	50
Northumberland	310	380	410	420	440

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Special
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
North East	130	140	1,050	1,050	1,170
Gateshead	10	10	90	80	90
Newcastle upon Tyne	10	10	110	100	110
North Tyneside	10	10	110	80	110
South Tyneside	20	10	70	70	70
Sunderland	10	10	120	140	150
Hartlepool	*	10	20	30	30
Middlesbrough	30	30	110	90	110
Redcar and Cleveland	10	20	10	80	100
Stockton-on-Tees	10	10	90	80	100
Durham	10	10	170	160	160
Darlington	10	10	40	40	40
Northumberland	*	*	100	110	120

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