Question follow-through · 115147
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact to the public purse of (a) changing the student loan repayment rates for existing borrowers and (b) changing the income threshold at which student loans are
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 36 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact to the public purse of (a) changing the student loan repayment rates for existing borrowers and (b) changing the income threshold at which student loans are
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
Reducing the repayment rate for existing student loan borrowers would reduce expected future repayments and therefore be a cost to the public purse. Increasing the income threshold at which student loans are repaid for existing borrowers would also reduce...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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