Question to the Department for Education:

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.

The department does not allocate funding to the Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) Quality Assurance Group (DSA-QAG).

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.