Question follow-through · 98199
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential administrative cost associated with tracing and managing borrowers of student loans whose repayment status cannot be verified through UK tax systems.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 31 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
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the potential administrative cost associated with tracing and managing borrowers of student loans whose repayment status cannot be verified through UK tax systems.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
As of April 2025, 6.1 million borrowers (English and EU nationals with loans from Student Finance England) are in Repayment. Of the 6.1 million, 286,000 (4.6%) reside overseas, of which 85,000 (29.7%) are EU nationals and 201,000 (70.3%) are English UK na...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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