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Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the long-term fiscal impact of replacing RPI with CPI for Plan 2 student loan interest.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
3 Mar 2026
Answer
26 Mar 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the long-term fiscal impact of replacing RPI with CPI for Plan 2 student loan interest.

  2. 3 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 26 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    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...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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