Education

Monday 23rd March 2026 Written Corrections

Student Loans

The following extract is from the Opposition day debate on Student Loans on 18 March 2026.

[David Reed]

We have heard the argument repeatedly that it was the Conservatives and the coalition Government that brought in these changes. I am someone with a plan 2 loan. I was in the generation that Blair told to go to university, and at no point did anyone in that Blair Government talk about how the jobs market would take on so many graduates or, most importantly, who would pay for those people to go to university. Does the Minister agree that the 50% of school leavers who went to university should be paid for by the 50% that did not?

[Georgia Gould]

I think it is really relevant to make sure that the public know who created this system—and not only created it, but froze those loans 10 times over the last 12 years—[Interruption.] I know that it is inconvenient for the Conservatives to be reminded of these truths, but we have lived through them.

[Official Report, 18 March 2026; Vol. 782, c. 929.]

 

Written correction submitted by the Minister for School Standards, the hon. Member for Queen's Park and Maida Vale (Georgia Gould):

[Georgia Gould]

I think it is really relevant to make sure that the public know who created this system—and not only created it, but froze those loans for 10 of the last 12 years—[Interruption.] I know that it is inconvenient for the Conservatives to be reminded of these truths, but we have lived through them.