Question follow-through · 113204
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she had made of the potential merits of using the Consumer Prices Index for the calculation of interest charges on students loans.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she had made of the potential merits of using the Consumer Prices Index for the calculation of interest charges on students loans.
23 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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26 Mar 2026
Answer published
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10 Apr 2026
Answer corrected
Interest rates on student loans have been consistently linked to a widely recognised and adopted measure of inflation. Interest rates are set in legislation in reference to the Retail Price Index (RPI) from the previous March and are applied annually on 1...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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