Question follow-through · 109715
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered the potential merits of removing the loan charge for students who withdraw from university in their first year due to health conditions and other mitigating circumstances.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.
Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has considered the potential merits of removing the loan charge for students who withdraw from university in their first year due to health conditions and other mitigating circumstances.
3 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
Students may defer or withdraw from their studies for different reasons including due to health conditions and other mitigating circumstances. Interest will continue to accrue even if a student suspends or withdraws from their course, but current students...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Gender Based Violence
10 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will set out how the violence against women and girls strategy will address misogynistic behaviour in schools; and what guidance, resources and funding her Department will provide to support intervention
Free School Meals
12 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of, a) pupils recorded as young carers and, b) pupils not recorded as young carers were eligible for Free School Meals in the January school census returns for 2023 to 2025.
Special Educational Needs
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure equal access to education for children with additional learning needs.
Children: Equality
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that children from ethnic minority and working class backgrounds have equal access to education and future work opportunities.