Question follow-through · 115760
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the (a) average repayment duration and (b) total interest paid over the life of the loan for (i) male and (ii) female Plan 2 student loan borrowers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 30 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative assessment her Department has made of the (a) average repayment duration and (b) total interest paid over the life of the loan for (i) male and (ii) female Plan 2 student loan borrowers.
2 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The median repayment duration of loans for students in the final cohort of Plan 2 borrowers, those who commenced study in the 2022/23 academic year, is 30 years. This is consistent with the average borrower in this cohort not being forecast to fully repay...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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