Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for how long UK citizens are required to reside in the UK in order to be eligible for student finance.

To be eligible for higher education funding in England, students are required to be settled in the UK, be ordinarily resident in England and have been ordinarily resident in the UK and Islands for three years prior to the first day of the first academic year of the course.

As higher education is a devolved matter in the UK different rules may apply for students ordinarily resident in other parts of the UK.