Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 80052

Students: Loans

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 21 October 2025

Named Day

Question

Luke Myer

Labour — Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to review (a) the age-65 write-off rule and (b) other terms of pre-2006 Plan 1 student loans to create consistency with later cohorts of borrowers whose loans are written off after 25 years.

Answer

Josh MacAlister

Where a new plan type is introduced, the terms, including the length of the loan, are considered as a whole. The new terms are not applied retrospectively to borrowers who have signed up to previous plans in existence at the time of their study. They are ...

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