Question follow-through · 2982
Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) removing spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowances funding and (b) the impact of reaching a decision on this prior to the concl
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) removing spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowances funding and (b) the impact of reaching a decision on this prior to the concl
21 May 2026
Target answer date
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2 Jun 2026
Answer published
The department engaged with disability experts who support disabled students to gather feedback on the removal of non-specialist spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) funding, in advance of a decision being taken. The decis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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