Question follow-through · 127769

Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Student Loan Company recovery action following the misclassification of weekend courses as in-attendance courses for the purposes of student finance on st

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Apr 2026
Target answer date
20 Apr 2026
Answer
29 Apr 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Student Loan Company recovery action following the misclassification of weekend courses as in-attendance courses for the purposes of student finance on st

  2. 20 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Finance

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing transitional protection for students who enrolled on university courses since found to have been wrongly classified for student fin

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Finance

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to pause recovery action being undertaken by the Student Loans Company against students whose universities misclassified weekend courses as in-attendance courses whilst any (a) review and (b)

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Finance

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Student Loan Company recovery action following the misclassification of weekend courses as in-attendance courses for the purposes of student finance on st

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Finance

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to support universities in correctly classify courses (a) in-attendance and (b) weekend only.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Knives

13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been the victim of a stabbing incident in educational settings in each of the last two academic years for which data is available by type of setting.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gemma Collins

20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department paid to Gemma Collins for her appearance in its recent communications campaign.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gemma Collins

20 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to her Department was of the recent campaign starring Gemma Collins.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Fraud

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of childcare grant fraud linked to student loans.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Fraud

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to identify the nationalities and ethnicities most associated with (a) childcare grant fraud and (b) student loan fraud.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Students: Loans

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to connect information on (a) childcare grant and (b) student loan claims with regulatory information about childcare providers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Fraud

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to identify the proportion of the student loan book used for fraudulent activity by students, franchised and non-franchised HE providers and intermediaries.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Childcare: Registration

21 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many childcare providers registered have no children signed up.