Question follow-through · 39485
Students: Disability
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department conducted an equality impact assessment prior to the decision to withdraw funding for non-specialist disabled students' allowance software.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department conducted an equality impact assessment prior to the decision to withdraw funding for non-specialist disabled students' allowance software.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The department made the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar software from the disabled students’ allowance (DSA) funding on the grounds that there are now free-to-access versions available with the required functionality to meet student...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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