Disabled Students Allowances

(asked on 19th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2018 to Question 199283 on Disabled Students Allowances, what the provisional figure is for 2016-2017.


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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 8th January 2019

The Student Loans Company publish statistics on the number of English domiciled students paid Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA): https://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx.

In the academic year 2016/17 the provisional (as at August 2017) figure for the number of English domiciled students paid full-time undergraduate equipment DSA was 18,700.

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