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Students: Loans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 2 June 2026 to question 2901 titled Students: Loans, whether she has made an assessment on the potential merits of bringing the Plan 2 repayment threshold in line with today’s RPI infl

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
22 Jun 2026
Answer
28 Jul 2026 · 43 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 2 June 2026 to question 2901 titled Students: Loans, whether she has made an assessment on the potential merits of bringing the Plan 2 repayment threshold in line with today’s RPI infl

  2. 22 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Plan 2 student loans were first made available to undergraduate students in 2012. These loans did not enter repayment until 2016, at which point the £21,000 repayment threshold was applied to Plan 2 loans.Since this government has been in power, we have i...

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Students: Loans

23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of pausing accrued interest on Plan 2 student loans for graduates while on maternity leave.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

AQA: Conditions of Employment and Pay

23 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the answer of 16 June 2026 to question 7572 titled AQA: Conditions of Employment and Pay, what discussions her Department had had with Ofqual specifically regarding pay and conditions for AQA staff.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Swimming: Pupils

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the proportion of children in England who meet the national curriculum requirement to swim 25 metres by the end of primary school; and what steps her Department is taking to

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Reading

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to extend the National Year of Reading into a longer-term programme of support for children's literacy; and whether she has considered the introduction of a National Reading Guarantee.