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Disabled Students' Allowances: Assistive Technology |
| Question ID: |
1790169 |
| UIN: |
HL6282 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
3453 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lord Addington
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Lord Addington
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what criteria they have for provision of paid-for software packages from free or built-in technology systems in the Disabled Students Allowance, and whether these criteria take into account capacity to train students to use |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-09 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
269 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Smith of Malvern
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| Answer text: |
The department has conducted an Equality Impact Assessment on this policy change and has identified the risk that this decision may have a negative impact on some disabled students who might prefer paid-for spelling and grammar software is mitigated by th... |
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| Answering body ID: |
60 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Education |
| Tweeted: |
true |