Question follow-through · 12531
Students: Loans
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
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.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Jul 2026
Answer published
Interest accrues on loan balances until the loan has been repaid in full or cancelled, but interest rates do not impact monthly repayments made by borrowers.Borrowers on Plan 2 terms have interest applied at a rate of Retail Price Index only when earnings...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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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.