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date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs: Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to payments under the specialist equipment allowance, what the (a) minimum, (b) maximum and (c) average amount a student has had to contribute towards equipment.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	203907
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Occasionally, students with particularly complex equipment needs may contribute to the cost of other specialist equipment if they exceed the maximum allowance amount, which in the 2018/19 academic year is £5,529 for the whole course for full-time students. Figures on the numbers of students who exceed the maximum allowance amount are not kept routinely.</p><p>Disabled students who are recommended a higher-powered computer to run assistive software as part of a Disabled Students’ Allowances needs assessment are required to contribute £200 towards the cost of their computer.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/01/2019 17:24:24 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1028697

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Disabled Students Allowances Quality Assurance Group
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding here Department has allocated to the Disabled Students Allowances Quality Assurance Group; and what proportion of that funding has been spent.
tabling member constituency	South Shields
tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
uin	203908
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>The department does not allocate funding to the Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) Quality Assurance Group (DSA-QAG).</p><p>DSA-QAG is a charity, funded through an annual registration and audit fee collected from three groups of DSAs providers - Assessment Centres, Assistive Technology Service Providers and Non-Medical Helper organisations.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 07/01/2019 17:26:17 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

1028700

registered interest
date	19/12/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Children: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment his Department has made of trends in the level of demand for children’s services provided by local authorities.
tabling member constituency	St Ives
tabling member printed	Derek Thomas
uin	203969
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/01/2019 answer text <p>Department data shows that since 2013, the number of children in need, children on child protection plans and looked after children, at 31 March 2018 have risen by 7.1%, 24.5% and 10.7% respectively.</p><p>The government is working, between now and the Spending Review 2019, to get a sharper picture of demand for children’s services.</p><p>The department is also working with MHCLG on the fair funding review of relative needs and resources, which is looking in more detail at levels of demand in local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Stratford-on-Avon answering member printed Nadhim Zahawi question first answered 07/01/2019 17:27:31 answering member 4113 label Biography information for Nadhim Zahawi
tabling member	4532 label Biography information for Derek Thomas