Question follow-through · 102294
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of Plan 2 student loan borrowers who will repay at the higher interest threshold as a result of the freeze to the Plan 2 repayment threshold.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of Plan 2 student loan borrowers who will repay at the higher interest threshold as a result of the freeze to the Plan 2 repayment threshold.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2026
Answer published
Freezing the Plan 2 repayment and interest rate thresholds for English borrowers means the upper threshold, used for calculating the variable portion of Plan 2 interest rates, will be lower than previously projected. This means more borrowers will be char...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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