Disabled Students' Allowances: Wirral

(asked on 14th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students are in receipt of assistive (a) hardware and (b) software technology through the Disabled Students' Allowance in (i) Wirral and (ii) Wallasey.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
This question was answered on 20th July 2020

The Student Loans Company does not distinguish between hardware and software within Disabled Student’s Allowance (DSA). These would both be grouped under the DSA equipment allowance. Therefore, it is not possible to separately identify the number of students who are in receipt of assistive hardware and assistive software technology through the DSA.

The number of students who were in receipt of assistive technology through the DSA equipment allowance in the 2018-19 academic year are:

i. 92 students whose home address is registered as Wirral; and

ii. 35 students whose home address is registered as Wallasey.

Figures are not yet available for the 2019-20 academic year.

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