Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December 2016 to Question 56452, when she plans to lay a statutory instrument providing that standard student support regulations enable healthcare students to apply for loans; and whether that statutory instruments affirmative will be made by the negative or resolution procedure.

The Government expects to lay Regulations implementing changes to student support for undergraduates in 2017/18 early in the New Year. The Regulations will be subject to the negative resolution procedure which is set out in statute.