Students: Loans
(asked on 16th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time tuition fee loans were paid to students from (a) Batley and Spen constituency, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in each of the last seven years.
Statistics on student support awards and payments are published annually by the Student Loans Company (SLC) in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Student Support for Higher Education in England’. The latest figures available refer to the 2016/17 Academic Year for student support awards and 2015/16 for actual payments, and are available at the link below.
http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/financial-support-awarded/england-higher-education.aspx
Statistics in the SFR are at the national level.
Students who were paid full-time tuition fee loans from the Batley and Spen Parliamentary Constituency1, West Yorkshire and England
Academic years: 2009/10 to 2015/16
Academic Year | Batley and Spen | West Yorkshire | England |
2009/10 | 2,950 | 24,520 | 790,255 |
2010/11 | 3,160 | 25,730 | 832,610 |
2011/12 | 3,410 | 26,885 | 887,270 |
2012/13 | 3,650 | 27,770 | 925,465 |
2013/14 | 3,955 | 28,980 | 965,540 |
2014/15 | 4,225 | 30,245 | 973,395 |
2015/16 [3] | 4,525 | 32,030 | 1,006,715 |
Source: Student Loans Company (SLC)
- Based on the student’s address at the time of the application.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
- Data for 2015/16 is effective 31/08/2016, this is still provisional as payments still happen following the end of the academic year.
- Batley & Spen Constituency and West Yorkshire have been derived from the home address (postcode region) of the student as stated on application for student finance.