Question follow-through · 99504
Higher Education: Neurological Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve accessibility to higher education for people with progressive neurological conditions such as Friedreich’s ataxia.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 7 Jan 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve accessibility to higher education for people with progressive neurological conditions such as Friedreich’s ataxia.
17 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jan 2026
Answer published
This government is committed to ensuring that all students are supported to both access higher education (HE) and to thrive while they are there. For example, in our recent Skills White Paper we committed to significantly increasing the take-up of the Adj...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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