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Students: Loans

Asked by David ReedConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 1 April 2026UIN 115758

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the average additional years in repayment for Plan 2 student loan borrowers attributable to charging interest at RPI plus up to three percentage points compared with CPI

Answered by Josh MacAlister

The department does not hold analysis of the impact on the number of additional years of repayment for Plan 2 borrowers attributable to the level of interest charged.

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