Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of student loan borrowers with post-2012 student loan arrangements in (a) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, (b) the City of Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands metropolitan county.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student support for the UK Government and Devolved Administrations. Information on the number of borrowers is published annually by the SLC in the Statistical First Release, Student Loans in England:

http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx

At the end of the financial year 2014-15, there were: (a) 3,810, (b) 27,040, and (c) 112,340, borrowers on post-2012 student loan arrangements who had been domiciled in: (a) Birmingham, Ladywood constituency, (b) the City of Birmingham and (c) the West Midlands, when they applied for financial support.