Students: Loans
Business, Innovation and Skills

Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the potential effects on the public finances of the introduction of 24+ Advanced Learning Loans in (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.

John Hayes (Minister of State (Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning), Business, Innovation and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will publish a Regulatory Impact Assessment of 24+ Advanced Learning Loans following clearance by the Regulatory Reform Cabinet Committee. This will include an assessment of the costs and benefits of introducing loans.
