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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...