Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many individual accounts have been opened with the Student Loans Company since the creation of that company; and how many of these are still active.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans for each of the UK Government Administrations. Statistics covering English student loan borrowers are published annually by the SLC in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Student Loans in England’. This data is available in tables which exceed the limits of the Parliamentary QWA system, and is instead attached and available at: http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx

Information on the repayment status of Income Contingent Repayment (ICR) English student loan borrowers, who have become liable to repay, can be found in table 3A of the SFR. Information on ICR English student loan borrowers, who are not yet liable to repay, can be found in table 2 of the SFR.

Comparable figures on students with mortgage-style loans (available to students starting courses prior to 1998/99) and students who received grants only are not available without disproportionate cost.