| Heading: |
Students: Disability |
| Question ID: |
1786239 |
| UIN: |
39485 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4510 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Helen Hayes
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| Asking Member handle: |
helenhayes_
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@helenhayes_
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department conducted an equality impact assessment prior to the decision to withdraw funding for non-specialist disabled students' allowance software. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4698 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Janet Daby
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| Answering Member handle: |
JanetDaby
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@JanetDaby
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The department made the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar software from the disabled students’ allowance (DSA) funding on the grounds that there are now free-to-access versions available with the required functionality to meet student... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |