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.
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.