Question follow-through · 11998
Students: Disadvantaged
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that students from lower-income backgrounds are able to afford to attend university.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 22 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that students from lower-income backgrounds are able to afford to attend university.
24 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jul 2026
Answer published
To improve affordability for disadvantaged students, we will future proof our maintenance loan offer by increasing maintenance loans in line with forecast inflation every academic year. Maintenance loans will increase by 2.71% in the 2026/27 academic year...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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