The former WH Smith executive's report, details of which were published over the weekend, highlighted concerns about the way budgets are spent within the Department for Children, Schools and Families, suggesting value for money is not always achieved.
It adds that money could be saved by trimming the teaching assistant workforce by 40,000 from the current 120,000 to 80,000.
But Coaker has given assurances that such a cull would not take place under a Labour government. He said: "We have tried hard to knock down the Handover report which included things about teaching assistants. We have not and we will not implement points made in the report about teaching assistants. The fact there are 40,000 more teachers and 20,000 more support staff is something we should be shouting from the rooftops about."
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