Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what systems her Department has in place to prevent student loans from being claimed fraudulently.

Information setting out how the Department works with partners including the Student Loans Company, to minimise fraud, including fraud in the student finance system, is published on pages 48-49 of the Department’s Consolidated annual report and accounts for year ended 31 March 2017 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-consolidated-annual-report-and-accounts-2016-to-2017.