Plan 2 Student Loans: Repayment Terms

Baroness Garden of Frognal Excerpts

Tuesday 17th March 2026 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

My Lords, a month of us being in power roughly equates to almost a year of the Opposition being in power. As I said at the beginning, we are moving forward in addressing affordability and cost-of-living measures, as well as looking at this very complicated area of student loans.

[Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD)]

My Lords, the presence of EU students in our universities has always been a net benefit to our students, enhancing their breadth of vision and making them understand how other people live. Is it not time we looked again at introducing better ways for EU students to attend our universities?

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

Any young person who has the opportunity to mix with other young people from around the world will talk of the benefit that brings. This area is of enormous importance. It is not only about students coming here, but where our young people want to go to achieve their future success.