Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the resale value of the sale of the latest tranch of student loans.

For a sale to represent value for money, the price offered by the market needs to be higher than what the government considers the loans to be worth.

This value is calculated using HM Treasury’s Green Book discount rate for all investment and asset management decisions.

Disclosing government’s retention value would prejudice future sales by allowing investors to establish the minimum acceptable price.

Further information on the sale arrangements will be presented in a report to Parliament pursuant to section 4 of the Sale of Student Loans Act 2008.