Disabled Students' Allowances

(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to change its policy on the threshold for self-contribution of disabled students in receipt of Disabled Students' Allowance; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 8th May 2018

The requirement that students in receipt of Disabled Students’ Allowance make a £200 contribution towards the costs of computer hardware was introduced in 2015. The government has no current plans to review the size of that contribution.

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