Question follow-through · 120935
Students: Loans
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of (a) the average outstanding student loan balance and (b) the proportion of borrowers currently making repayments in (i) Merseyside and (ii) the North West of England.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of (a) the average outstanding student loan balance and (b) the proportion of borrowers currently making repayments in (i) Merseyside and (ii) the North West of England.
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
The average outstanding student loan balance of borrowers in the North West government region who have been funded by Student Finance England was £37,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand) on 15 March 2025. This includes all loans, even those not yet liabl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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