PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Overseas Students: Loans (28 April 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the total liability was for student debt acquired by non-UK citizens in each of the last 10 years; and what the outstanding arrears was of such debt in each of those years.

Asked by:
Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans for each of the UK Government Administrations. Statistics covering English loans to EU domiciled borrowers are published annually by SLC in the Statistical First Release (SFR) ‘Student Loans in England’.

http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment/england.aspx

Information on the loan balance held by EU domiciled borrowers that are liable for repayment and in arrears at the end of each of the financial years 2012-13, 2013-14 and 2014-15 can be found in table 1 of the SFR.

The information for the financial years prior to this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Conservative)
4 May 2016