Disabled Students' Allowances
(asked on 16th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been paid out to disabled students allowances in each of the last three years.
The table below provides information on the numbers of English-domiciled students who have applied for and received Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) in the last three years.
| Full-time undergraduate students | Part-time undergraduate students | Postgraduate students | |||
Academic year | Number of students | Amount paid (million) | Number of students | Amount paid (million) | Number of students | Amount paid (million) |
2013/14 | 60,200 | £134.2 | 2,700 | £6.6 | 5,600 | £11.9 |
2014/15 | 59,900 | £132.2 | 3,500 | £8.6 | 5,800 | £11.0 |
2015/16 | 58,900 | £115.6 | 3,800 | £8.9 | 5,600 | £10.6 |
2016/17* | 54,900 | £92.1 | 3,400 | £6.4 | 7,100 | £11.4 |
*Figures for 2016/17 are provisional.
(Source: Student Loans Company http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx)
Although we do not yet have full-year data for 2016/17, we expected to see a reduction in DSAs’ take-up from 2016/17 as higher education providers are now expected to provide less specialist non-medical help for disabled students as part of their responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010.