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1175053

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will undertake an equality impact assessment of transferring to higher education providers responsibility for (a) administering and (b) setting the level of disabled students' allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	10740
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/02/2020 answer text <p>​The levels of Disabled Students’ Allowances available to students are set in the Education (Student Support) Regulations. The department undertakes, and publishes, an Equality Analysis each time it lays amendments to these Regulations.</p><p> </p><p>​No decision has been made to transfer the administration of Disabled Students’ Allowances to Higher Education Providers.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 10/02/2020 08:54:27 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1174935

	registered interest
	date	30/01/2020
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Learning Disability
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to support disabled students with visual stress.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	10329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2020 answer text <p>The Department is currently discussing with the Association of Dyslexia Specialists in Higher Education whether there is a case to provide Disabled Students’ Allowances for certain types of assistance for higher education students with a diagnosis of visual stress. We will announce further details in due course<strong>.</strong></p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/02/2020 09:54:52 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1111022

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether all potential students with a diagnosis of (a) dyslexia and (b) specific learning difficulties who had their assessment completed by someone without the Assessment Practising Certificate before the end of February 2019 will need to complete and pay for a second assessment to be eligible for the disabled students’ allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	243369
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>Students with specific learning difficulties, including dyslexia, applying for Disabled Students’ Allowances must provide as evidence of their disability diagnostic assessments undertaken by persons who hold Assessment Practising Certificates or who are registered as psychologists with the Health and Care Professions Council.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/04/2019 15:38:29 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1111023

	registered interest
	date	10/04/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether those people involved in teaching and diagnosing pupils with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties in the school system have been consulted on the changes to who is able to conduct assessments for eligibility for the disabled students’ allowance.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	243370
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/04/2019 answer text <p>In 2018 the department reviewed the requirement that students with specific learning difficulties applying for Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) must submit a post-16 diagnostic assessment to determine their eligibility for DSAs. This review also sought views on which assessments should be used to determine eligibility, regardless of the age of the person being assessed. The organisations invited to contribute to the review included organisations involved with teaching and diagnosing pupils with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties in the school system.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 23/04/2019 15:25:48 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

1061134

	registered interest
	date	14/02/2019
	answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept id	201
	answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
	hansard heading	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Research
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many grant applications have been made to the Medical Research Council for ME/CFS related research since 2010; how many of those applications have been awarded funding; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	221619
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>Since 2009/10, the Medical Research Council (MRC) has received 32 research proposals relating to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), seven of which have been funded.</p><p> </p><p>The MRC supports research in response to proposals from the research community. High quality applications on any aspect of human health are always welcomed and awards are made according to their scientific quality and importance to human health.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/02/2019 13:02:02 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

784764

	registered interest
	date	06/11/2017
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Malnutrition
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of deaths in England caused by malnutrition in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
	tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
	uin	111557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2017 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 16/11/2017 15:52:12 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore attachment 1 file name PQ111557 (1).pdf title UKSA response
	tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson