Students: Loans
Commons · Question 115147 · Tabled 23 Feb 2026 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 31 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Calum Miller
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the potential impact to the public purse of (a) changing the student loan repayment rates for existing borrowers and (b) changing the income threshold at which student loans are
Answer
Answered by Josh MacAlister, 31 Mar 2026
Reducing the repayment rate for existing student loan borrowers would reduce expected future repayments and therefore be a cost to the public purse. Increasing the income threshold at which student loans are repaid for existing borrowers would also reduce...