Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between David Chadwick and Mohammad Yasin

Monday 2nd March 2026 Commons Chamber

[David Chadwick (Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe) (LD)]

8. What assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the student loan system.

[Mohammad Yasin (Bedford) (Lab)]

21. What steps her Department is taking to improve the student loans system.

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Josh MacAlister)]

We will consider ways to make the student loan system fairer, as the Prime Minister said last week. This Government have already reintroduced maintenance grants and raised the repayment threshold to above average graduate salaries, and we are acting across the board on the cost of living by bringing down inflation and tackling transport, energy and rental costs.