Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the disabilities that students who qualified for the Disabled Students Allowance in each year since 2014-15.

Neither the Department for Education nor the Student Loans Company routinely collects data on the disabilities of students eligible for Disabled Students’ Allowances. Advance HE publishes annually a national student equality data report for higher education institutions. Its most recent report can be found at https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/resources/2018_HE-stats-report-students.pdf table 2.3 on page 83 shows a profile of all disabled students over time by impairment type.