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60452

registered interest
date	06/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what impact assessments he carried out on proposals to change disabled students' allowances.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
tabling member printed	Mrs Louise Ellman
uin	199497
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The proposed changes to Disabled Students' Allowances will be subject to an Equality Analysis, which will consider their impact in relation to protected characteristics. Extensive discussions are underway with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform this.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I will consider a final version of the Equality Analysis before any final decisions are made and regulations are laid before the House.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 11/06/2014 16:47:22 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	484 label Biography information for Dame Louise Ellman

57571

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how personal histories of recognised special educational needs will be taken into account when making assessments of eligibility for the Disabled Students' Allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL44
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no proposed changes to the current process of assessment. All applicants for the Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs) will undertake a study needs assessment and independent study needs assessors will provide recommendations, giving due regard to personal histories of recognised special educational needs, where these have been provided. The support and strategies recommended by assessment centres will be provided by a combination of reasonable adjustments by Higher Education Institutions and DSAs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL45 question first answered 18/06/2014 11:41:12 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

57572

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what process they will put in place in order to gather information regarding the assessment of eligibility for the Disabled Students' Allowance.
tabling member printed	Lord Addington
uin	HL45
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>There are no proposed changes to the current process of assessment. All applicants for the Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs) will undertake a study needs assessment and independent study needs assessors will provide recommendations, giving due regard to personal histories of recognised special educational needs, where these have been provided. The support and strategies recommended by assessment centres will be provided by a combination of reasonable adjustments by Higher Education Institutions and DSAs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon grouped question UIN HL44 question first answered 18/06/2014 11:41:11 answering member 4210 label Biography information for Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
tabling member	3453 label Biography information for Lord Addington

57801

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will carry out a public consultation on proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	198941
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>We are currently consulting with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform both the Equality Analysis and Disabled Students' Allowances Guidance for 2015/16.</p><p>I will have due regard to an updated Equality Analysis before a final decision is made and regulations are laid before the House.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 199002 question first answered 12/06/2014 16:10:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57802

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students of each type of main disability are in receipt of disabled students' allowances.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	198942
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>Information on students awarded and paid Disabled Students' Allowance is published annually by Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release ‘<em>Student Support for Higher Education England</em>'. The latest statistics are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf</a></p><p>Information on the disability type for students in receipt of Disabled Students' Allowance is only available at the point of application and so are not included in our routine statistical outputs. The figures provided in the following table reflect the number of applications and do not necessarily correspond to the number of students who were actually awarded and paid.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>DSA Application data by disability type </strong></p><p>Academic Year 2012/13</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Effective date: 10/07/2013</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Disability Type</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of new DSA applicants assessed as eligible for DSA</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Autistic Disorder</p></td><td><p>880</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Blind/Partial Sight</p></td><td><p>410</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Deaf/Partial Hearing</p></td><td><p>530</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Learning Difficulty</p></td><td><p>21,720</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Longstanding Illness</p></td><td><p>2,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Mental Health</p></td><td><p>3,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Multiple Disabilities</p></td><td><p>3,560</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Disability type not Captured</p></td><td><p>1,080</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wheelchair/Mobility</p></td><td><p>540</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other Disability not Categorised Elsewhere</p></td><td><p>460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>35,390</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>[1] Data has been rounded to the nearest 10.</strong></p><p><strong>[2] The data has been derived from analysing free text fields therefore may not be 100% accurate.</strong></p><p><strong>[3] Count of Applicants refers to new DSA applicants in academic year 2012/13 who have been assessed as eligible for DSA.</strong></p><p><strong>[4] Applications are for new DSA applications received in academic year 2012/13.</strong></p><p><strong>[5] Total does not add up due to rounding.</strong></p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts question first answered 12/06/2014 15:53:48 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland

57803

registered interest
date	04/06/2014
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Disabled Students' Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, with reference to his written statement of 7 April 2014, Official Report, columns 1-2WS, on Higher Education: student support, what impact assessment his Department has made of the proposed changes to disabled students' allowances.
tabling member constituency	South Swindon
tabling member printed	Mr Robert Buckland
uin	199002
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2014 answer text <p>We are currently consulting with a wide range of stakeholders to help inform both the Equality Analysis and Disabled Students' Allowances Guidance for 2015/16.</p><p>I will have due regard to an updated Equality Analysis before a final decision is made and regulations are laid before the House.</p> answering member constituency Havant answering member printed Mr David Willetts grouped question UIN 198941 question first answered 12/06/2014 16:10:01 answering member 53 label Biography information for Lord Willetts
tabling member	4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland