Question follow-through · 29178
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the maintenance loans system for meeting students’ cost of living needs.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 18 Feb 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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- Languages: Education · 15 Apr 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the maintenance loans system for meeting students’ cost of living needs.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Feb 2025
Answer published
The government has published an Equality Impact Assessment of changes to fees and student support on groups with protected characteristics for the 2025/26 academic year, which is available here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2025/14/pdfs/ukia_202500...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Languages: Education
15 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consideration her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the number of modern foreign languages offered at GCSE level.