Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department has taken to inform students with existing student loans of the (a) changes announced to the loan repayment threshold in the 2015 Autumn Statement and (b) effect of those changes on their student loan balance and repayments.

The Government announced the decision to freeze the repayment threshold as part of the Spending Review and Autumn Statement on 25th November 2015. The Government response to the consultation and the equality analysis can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/freezing-the-student-loan-repayment-threshold