They received 41,000 in 2011 in total.....
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John
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> On 5 Jun 2014, at 18:43, "John Conway" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> And how many do claim Disabled Student Allowance currently? Has it really increased by 150,000 in one year?
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> With regards,
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> John
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 5 Jun 2014, at 14:47, "Jeremy Fox" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Most will already have seen Willetts' ministerial statement and his letter of 3 June 2014 to members of parliament. Both lead one to wonder whether the minister had been adequately briefed. In the letter, he writes as follows:
>> <<DSA expenditure on full time undergraduates has grown from £88m in 2009/10 to £125m in 2011/12, and that level of growth is unsustainable in the longer term.>>
>> This sentence, which lies at the heart of his proposed reforms is misleading in two ways.
>> First, 2009/10 was when the SLC was still learning the ropes of how to manage DSA one consequence of which was that many students did not receive the support to which they were entitled. We might expect the DSA expenditure to be lower in that year. Second, the figures do not include the the latest year for which data are available namely 2012/13 when the total expenditure was £120m (£5m less than the previous year) - even though the number of recipients increased by about 150,000. In other words, the 'rate of growth' to which the minister refers has already ceased and possibly gone into reverse.
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