Disabled Students' Allowances
(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much funding available through the disabled student's allowance was spent on non-medical help in the last year.
Information on students awarded and paid Disabled Students' Allowance is published annually by Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release ‘Student Support for Higher Education England'. The latest statistics are available at the following link:
http://www.slc.co.uk/media/694170/slcsfr052013.pdf
A further breakdown by type of Disabled Students' Allowance has been provided for the Academic Year 2012/13. The effective date is 30th November 2013. These figures are therefore provisional and do not include students who were awarded DSA after November 2013.
Equivalent figures for the Academic Year 2013/14 will be available from November 2014.
Breakdown by Type of Disabled Student Allowance(1,2) Expenditure in England
Academic Year 2012/13
Effective date: 30/11/2013(3)
Type of Disabled Student Allowance | Expenditure (£) |
Disabled Student Allowance Total Expenditure | 121,239,000 |
Disabled Student Allowance for non-medical helpers | 77,859,000 |
Part Time DSA Total Expenditure | 6,811,000 |
Part Time DSA for non-medical helpers | 4,551,000 |
Post Graduate DSA Total Expenditure(4) | 9,953,000 |
Total DSA Expenditure | 138,003,000 |
Notes:
1. Disabled Student Allowance (DSA) may be paid to the Student or to a Supplier on the student's behalf.
2. DSA Payments may be made at any point during the Academic Year or after the end of the Academic Year.
3. The effective date is 30th November 2013. The figures are therefore provisional and do not include students who were awarded DSA after November 2013.
4. Post Graduate DSA Expenditure is not broken down in the same way as Disabled Student Allowance and Part Time DSA. An overall figure for Post Graduate DSA has been provided as a result.
Figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand.