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706205

registered interest
date	28/02/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 46 of the Success as a knowledge economy White Paper published in May 2016, what plans she has to introduce an alternative model of student finance including Sharia-compliant student loans.
tabling member constituency	St Albans
tabling member printed	Mrs Anne Main
uin	65947
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2017 answer text <p>The Government has introduced the primary legislation required to allow alternative student finance, consistent with the principles of Islamic finance, to be offered alongside grants and loans. The Higher Education and Research Bill is currently before Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 08/03/2017 17:56:02 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1568 label Biography information for Mrs Anne Main

672072

registered interest
date	12/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere, published in March 2016, what progress has been made on establishing a fund to help the brightest students in state schools to fulfil their potential.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	59865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/01/2017 answer text <p>In the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper, the Government committed to ‘investigate, fund and evaluate approaches to help the brightest students in state schools to fulfil their potential’.</p><p>The Government is currently consulting on plans which will help to create more opportunities for all pupils, including the most able, through proposals to increase the number of good schools places, including selective places. In addition, Departmental officials are assessing the best ways to support the most academically able pupils across the full range of state schools, particularly those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds. We will announce our plans in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 17/01/2017 17:25:39 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

670195

registered interest
date	09/01/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2016 to Question 52361, what assessment she has made of the potential effect of the student loan repayment threshold freeze on those students who depend on student loans or other financial assistance to fund their studies.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	59204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>The Government published a full Equality Analysis of the impact of freezing the student loan repayment threshold on 25 November 2015. This followed a public consultation that took place from 22 July 2015 to 14 October 2015.</p><p>All borrowers whose earnings are above the repayment threshold will pay around £6 per week more (in nominal terms) by 2020/21. Those individuals with the lowest lifetime earnings will be affected the least, because they will either never earn above the earnings threshold, or will only do so for a limited period of the loan’s life.</p><p>The full Equality Analysis can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479559/bis-15-635-freezing-student-loan-repayment-threshold-equality-analysis.pdf</a>.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 18/01/2017 16:58:53 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

657845

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applicants for student finance for the 2016-17 academic year are still awaiting a decision; and how many of those applicants are awaiting an immigration status check before their eligibility can be decided.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
uin	57407
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/12/2016 answer text <p>As of 13 December 2016, 1,342 customers are awaiting an immigration status check with the Home Office before their eligibility can be decided.</p><p> </p><p>The Home Office works to an agreement to confirm decisions on eligibility for student funding within 10 working days. Regulatory changes that created a new long residency category of customers made earlier in 2016 have resulted in an increase in numbers of customers being referred for checks with the Home Office. This has led to an increase in processing times for such checks. Extra resource has now been provided to increase the volume completed by 25% per day.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual students to provide the necessary evidence in support of their application. My officials are working with the Home Office to explore what additional support or alternative solutions can be provided to increase the speed of immigration status checks.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 19/12/2016 18:04:30 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart

657847

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how long, on average, students wait for a decision on funding if they require the Home Office to confirm to Student Finance England that their immigration status makes them eligible to apply for that funding.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
uin	57421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office works to an agreement to confirm decisions on eligibility for student funding within 10 working days. Regulatory changes that created a new long residency category of customers made earlier in 2016 have resulted in an increase in numbers of customers being referred for checks with the Home Office. This has led to an increase in processing times for such checks. Extra resource has now been provided to increase the volume completed by 25% per day.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual students to provide the necessary evidence in support of their application. My officials are working with the Home Office to explore what additional support or alternative solutions can be provided to increase the speed of immigration status checks.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 57422 question first answered 21/12/2016 17:04:01 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart

657848

registered interest
date	13/12/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on the quota of 20 immigration status checks per day allocated to Student Finance England.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Fiona Mactaggart
uin	57422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office works to an agreement to confirm decisions on eligibility for student funding within 10 working days. Regulatory changes that created a new long residency category of customers made earlier in 2016 have resulted in an increase in numbers of customers being referred for checks with the Home Office. This has led to an increase in processing times for such checks. Extra resource has now been provided to increase the volume completed by 25% per day.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of individual students to provide the necessary evidence in support of their application. My officials are working with the Home Office to explore what additional support or alternative solutions can be provided to increase the speed of immigration status checks.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson grouped question UIN 57421 question first answered 21/12/2016 17:04:01 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	12 label Biography information for Fiona Mactaggart

631822

registered interest
date	08/11/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of university students fund their studies without a student loan or other financial assistance from the state.
tabling member constituency	Houghton and Sunderland South
tabling member printed	Bridget Phillipson
uin	52361
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/11/2016 answer text <p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans for each of the UK Government administrations. Statistics covering loans administered through the English loan system are published annually by the SLC in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Student Loans in England’, available at:</p><p><a href="http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx</a></p><p>Latest information on the number of students who were estimated to meet the eligibility criteria for full-time English Tuition Fee Loans and who received such a loan from the SLC in the academic year 2013/14 is available in Table 4B(ii) of the SFR. The figures show that, in 2013/14, an estimated 10 per cent of students at public providers of higher education who met the eligibility criteria for English Tuition Fee Loans did not take up such a loan to fund their studies.</p><p>Statistics on loan take-up in the academic year 2014/15 will be published by the SLC on 30 November 2016.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 15/11/2016 17:56:38 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	4046 label Biography information for Bridget Phillipson

576557

registered interest
date	05/09/2016
answering body	Department for Exiting the European Union
answering dept id	203
answering dept short name	Exiting the European Union
answering dept sort name	Exiting the European Union
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will make it his policy to ensure reciprocity of student access to higher education funding systems with other EU countries as part of negotiations on the UK leaving the EU.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	44878
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The rights of EU nationals here and British citizens in other EU states to access higher education funding systems once the UK has left the European Union will be agreed during the course of negotiations.</p><p>There has been no change to date to current reciprocal rights as a result of the referendum.</p><p>The Student Loans Company (SLC) has already published reassurance to current students and the '16/17 cohort that they will be able to obtain finance for the full duration of their course.</p> answering member constituency Clwyd West answering member printed Mr David Jones question first answered 12/09/2016 15:39:06 answering member 1502 label Biography information for Mr David Jones
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner

542174

registered interest
date	21/07/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional financial assistance is available to students whose maintenance loans do not fully cover the costs of accommodation; and what estimate she has made of the proportion of students who are so affected.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	43945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/09/2016 answer text <p>The Government’s policy is that maintenance support is provided to cover a range of student expenditure, and is only a contribution to students’ costs. Maintenance support is linked to parental income, to ensure that students from lower income backgrounds receive the highest rates of loan, and for new students beginning study this academic year, maintenance support has increased by up to 10.3% on the previous year.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to their maintenance support, students may be eligible for financial assistance from their university. In 2016/17, £745 million is expected to be spent by universities on measures to support the access and success of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, including through bursaries and fee waivers. Such assistance is over and above the other sources of income students may have such as their families or from paid work.</p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 09/09/2016 13:28:22 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

515728

registered interest
date	26/04/2016
answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept id	26
answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
hansard heading	Students: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Written Statement of 26 April 2016, HCWS701, what estimate he has made of the number of students affected by the proposed changes to eligibility to student support for people with long residency in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	35678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2016 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>We estimated at the time of proposing the changes that they could lead to an additional 2,400 claims for student support in the first year after the changes take effect. This estimate was derived from information on those people who had non-asylum discretionary leave to remain and had applied for student support. However, we do not have information on the length of time these individuals have been in the UK or their age. It is therefore not possible to determine exactly how many of these individuals would meet the criteria in the new rules.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Orpington answering member printed Joseph Johnson question first answered 04/05/2016 15:23:00 answering member 4039 label Biography information for Lord Johnson of Marylebone
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden