Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 94380
Students: Loans
Tabled: 25 November 2025
Answered: 3 December 2025
Question
James Naish
Labour — Rushcliffe
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential (a) merits of calculating maintenance loans through net rather than gross household income and (b) impact of that change on single parental income
Answer
Josh MacAlisterEntitlement to partially means-tested undergraduate loans for living costs is based on the income of the student’s household.The income used is the total income on which a person is charged income tax at step 1 of the calculation in Section 23 of the Inco...
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