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Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing student maintenance loans in line with Consumer Price Index inflation.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
5 Nov 2024
Target answer date
11 Nov 2024
Answer
11 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing student maintenance loans in line with Consumer Price Index inflation.

  2. 11 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The government recognises the impact that the cost of living crisis has had on students. That is why the government is increasing the maximum maintenance loans for living costs for the 2025/26 academic year by 3.1%, in line with the forecast rate of infla...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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