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Disabled Students' Allowances

Commons · Question 29298 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 13 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Josh Fenton-Glynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students in receipt of Disabled Students' Allowance spelling and grammar assistive technology packages were required to undertake a needs assessment in each year since 2015.

Answer

Answered by Janet Daby, 13 Feb 2025

The average waiting time for a needs assessment from the date of application to the date of the assessment being carried out comprises the time taken by the Student Loans Company (SLC) to process an application and then the time taken by the contracted su...