Question follow-through · 51135

Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many organisations were consulted on the decision to cut funding for specialist software from the Disabled Student's Allowance.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
9 May 2025
Target answer date
13 May 2025
Answer
29 May 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many organisations were consulted on the decision to cut funding for specialist software from the Disabled Student's Allowance.

  2. 13 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 May 2025

    Answer published

    The department engaged with disability experts who support disabled students to gather their feedback and insights on the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowance funding. These persons contributed ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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