Question follow-through · 118086
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made on the number of people with a Plan 3 student loan in England and Wales; and what is the total value of those loans.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 2 Apr 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made on the number of people with a Plan 3 student loan in England and Wales; and what is the total value of those loans.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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2 Apr 2026
Answer published
The number of England‑domiciled borrowers with a Plan 3 student loan was 603,000, rounded to the nearest thousand, and the total value of those loans was £6.521 billion, rounded to the nearest million, as of 31 March 2025.Education is a devolved matter, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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