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date	15/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Universities: Students
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to increase the level of financial support available to university students.
tabling member constituency	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
tabling member printed	Hugh Gaffney
uin	277256
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>Living costs support increased by 10.3% for students on the lowest incomes in the 2016-17 academic year compared to the previous system, with further inflationary increases for each year since then. The government has announced a 2.8% increase in maximum loans for living costs for the 2019-20 academic year starting in August.</p><p>An announcement on financial support for academic year 2020-21 will be made in due course.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/07/2019 10:01:23 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4614 label Biography information for Hugh Gaffney

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registered interest
date	15/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Loans
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether part-time students studying undergraduate courses using distance learning will be eligible to apply for maintenance loans for the 2019-20 academic year.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	277277
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>In March 2019, the government announced its decision not to extend maintenance loans to part-time distance learners in the 2019-20 academic year. This was on the grounds that the demand for a loan product aimed at part-time distance learners is unlikely to be high enough to make the introduction of such a loan economically viable.</p> answering member constituency Kingswood answering member printed Chris Skidmore question first answered 22/07/2019 15:55:07 answering member 4021 label Biography information for Chris Skidmore
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith