Question follow-through · 107638
Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how regional cost-of-living disparities are taken into account when calculating student maintenance support, particularly for lower-income students studying in rural unive
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 21 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review how regional cost-of-living disparities are taken into account when calculating student maintenance support, particularly for lower-income students studying in rural unive
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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30 Jan 2026
Answer published
To help higher education students with cost-of-living pressures, we are future-proofing maintenance loans by increasing them in-line with forecast inflation every year and reintroducing targeted means-tested maintenance grants of up to £1,000 per year fro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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