Question follow-through · 61860
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility of the long course loan to (a) estranged and (b) care experienced students.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if her Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the eligibility of the long course loan to (a) estranged and (b) care experienced students.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jun 2025
Answer published
Full-time undergraduate students who are estranged from their parents or who are care leavers qualify for a long courses loan in the same way as other full-time undergraduate students.Full-time students who attend their courses for more than 30 weeks and ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pre-school Education: Sleep
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