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.

answeredDepartment for Education

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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

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Recorded timeline

  1. 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.

  2. 29 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 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...

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