Question follow-through · 54020
Learning Disability: Disability Aids
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students' Allowance funding on student retention rates at universities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of removing spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students' Allowance funding on student retention rates at universities.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jun 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.The department’s review of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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