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Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology |
| Question ID: |
1785046 |
| UIN: |
HL5800 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-14 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3453 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Addington
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Lord Addington
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government whether any additional training requirements have been put in place for students in receipt of Disabled Students Allowance following changes made to the technology packages available to those students. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The department engaged with disability experts who support disabled students to gather their feedback and insights on the decision to remove non-specialist spelling and grammar software from Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) funding.The department does n... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |