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Students: Loans

Asked by Mr Peter BedfordConservativeDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 10 April 2026UIN 121569

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish student loan repayment data, broken down by national origin, for the last academic year for which data has been collated.

Answered by Josh MacAlister

The number of student loan borrowers who are not UK Nationals and withdrew from their latest recorded course in 2024/25 was 15,000 (to the nearest 500).

The department and the Student Loans Company have strengthened the quality and consistency of data in this area and now hold reliable information on borrowers’ UK national status and nationality.

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