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Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the savings to her Department from the withdrawal of funding for non-specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
29 Apr 2025
Answer
6 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the savings to her Department from the withdrawal of funding for non-specialist assistive software through the Disabled Students' Allowance.

  2. 29 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 6 May 2025

    Answer published

    Funding under the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) is in general not available for goods and services that may be needed by the general student population, whether disabled or not. The department has withdrawn funding for non-specialist software as this...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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