Question follow-through · 84952
Disabled Students' Allowances
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department a) has recently made and b) plans to make changes to the eligibility criteria for Disabled Students Allowance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 7 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
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department a) has recently made and b) plans to make changes to the eligibility criteria for Disabled Students Allowance.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
The department has not recently made changes to the eligibility criteria for Disabled Students’ Allowance and has no current plans to do so.As part of wider reforms set out in the government’s post-16 education and skills white paper, the department is co...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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