ONS Decisions: Student Loans Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

ONS Decisions: Student Loans

Lloyd Russell-Moyle Excerpts
Tuesday 18th December 2018

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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I have been very clear that this decision, which is fundamentally an accounting decision, will not affect the outcome of the review.

Lloyd Russell-Moyle Portrait Lloyd Russell-Moyle (Brighton, Kemptown) (Lab/Co-op)
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This may be an accounting decision, but it clearly does increase the deficit for the Government. With students paying 6.3% interest, 70% of students never paying the full loan back and almost 50% of the loans never paid back at all, who is the current student finance system working for?