Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many overseas borrowers currently classified as non-compliant by the Student Loans Company had their first student loan disbursed in each academic year since 2005, broken down by nationality.

The attached table shows the number of overseas borrowers currently classified as non-compliant by the Student Loans Company (SLC), broken down by the academic year of their first student loan and their nationality.

The population includes all borrowers issued loans by Student Finance England from 2005 to 2024 which are now due for repayment and have an outstanding balance. Borrowers are included if they have any loan which is now liable to repay, they are known to be overseas and they have either defaulted in arrears or been placed in arrears as they have not provided details of their income to SLC. For borrowers in arrears, the SLC may use a debt collection agency to pursue them. Each borrower is listed only once against the year of their first student loan.