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.
About this written question
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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
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
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.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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