Question follow-through · 24551
Students: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of calculating parental income for Student Finance purposes before the deduction of carried-forward trading losses on self-employed households.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of calculating parental income for Student Finance purposes before the deduction of carried-forward trading losses on self-employed households.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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4 Sept 2026
Answer published
Entitlement to partially means-tested undergraduate loans for living costs is based on the income of the student’s household. The income used is the total income charged to tax as defined at step one of Section 23 of the Income Tax Act 2007, before relief...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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