Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has carried out an equality impact assessment on the uprating of the student maintenance loan.

The department publishes an equality impact assessment of changes to student support in England annually on GOV.UK.

For the current 2023/24 academic year, the equality impact assessment can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/higher-education-student-finance-2023-to-2024-equality-analysis.