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<p>Provisional data for 2017/18 provided by the Student Loans Company (SLC) shows
that 1,600 part-time undergraduate English domiciled students have so far been paid
Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSA) for equipment, a 23% increase on the number paid
at the same point in the academic year 2016/17 (1,300).</p><p>Data provided by the
SLC shows that, in the academic year 2016/17, 1,500 part-time undergraduate English
domiciled students were paid DSA for equipment. This compares to 1,700 in the academic
years 2015/16 and 2014/15.</p><p>For full-time students only, DSA provisional uptake
and expenditure data for 2017/18 show an increase in the number of students benefitting
from the equipment allowance to 21,800, compared to 18,700 at the same point in the
previous year. The overall expenditure has also risen, to £21.5 million in 2017/18
compared to £14.4 million at the same point the previous year: an increase of almost
50%. This means that the average expenditure per student over those two years has
risen to £986 in 2017/18 from £770 at the same point in 2016/17.</p><p> </p>
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