Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Student Loans Company on its approval of funding for courses later deemed ineligible.

As part of the department’s wider work to protect public money in higher education, we take swift and proportionate action to identify fraud and error in the student finance system.

We work closely with the Student Loans Company (SLC) to ensure student finance is delivered in line with statutory eligibility requirements and funding rules set by Ministers. Where courses are found to be ineligible, the department actively engages with the SLC to implement the appropriate actions in accordance with established processes.

The government recognises the importance of minimising disruption to students where errors in funding eligibility occur and will carefully consider the impact on affected students.