Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure students can continue to access student finance during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Student Loans Company will continue to make scheduled tuition payments to providers for the remainder of the current, 2019/20, academic year.

Students will also continue to receive scheduled payments of loans towards their living costs for 2019/20. Both tuition and living costs payments will continue irrespective of closures or whether learning has moved online.