Disabled Students' Allowances: North East
(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many people in (a) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, (b) Middlesbrough, (c) Stockton North, (d) Stockton South, (e) Hartlepool, (f) Redcar constituency and (g) the North East received disabled students' allowance in (i) 2011-12, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2013-14.
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 for the requested constituencies, local authorities and North East region has been provided in the table for academic years 2011/12 and 2012/13.
The effective date is that used for the November 2013 Awards Statistical First Release. Hence, the figures for 2012/13 are classified as 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.
Students in receipt of Disabled Students Allowance(1,2) in the North East region(3)
Academic Year
Effective date: 13/11/2013(4)
| Application Type | |||||||
| 2011/12 | 2012/13(4) | ||||||
Full-Time Application | Part-Time Application | Post Graduate DSA | Total | Full-Time Application | Part-Time Application | Post Graduate DSA | Total | |
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | 80 | 10 | 10 | 100 | 80 | 10 | 10 | 100 |
Middlesbrough LEA | 100 | 10 | 10 | 120 | 90 | 10 | 10 | 110 |
Stockton North constituency | 60 | - | - | 60 | 60 | - | - | 70 |
Stockton South constituency | 70 | 10 | - | 80 | 90 | - | - | 90 |
Hartlepool LEA | 70 | 10 | 10 | 90 | 70 | - | - | 70 |
Redcar constituency | 70 | 10 | - | 80 | 60 | - | - | 70 |
North East region | 1,470 | 160 | 140 | 1,770 | 1,590 | 150 | 100 | 1,860 |
Notes:
1. Disabled Student Allowance 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. Figures are derived from the Post Code of the applicant's home address.
4. The effective date is that of the November 2013 Awards Statistical First Release. The figures are therefore provisional and do not include students who were awarded DSA after November 2013.
Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10. Totals may not add to the sum of the components due to rounding.
'-' represents a number less than 5.